Does God Capriciously Play With Our Lives? No.

I found the picture on the left and it struck me as problematic because people actually think that God is like that: at best that God doesn't care about our sufferings or worse gleefully hits us with them! This is not what the Bible tells us about God. The question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" presupposes that there are good people who don't deserve the bad things that happen. The problem is that there is no such thing as someone who is so "good" that they don't deserve bad things from happening. We are all deserving of hell and total separation from God! Of course bad things are going to happen to us! What is more incredible and hard to understand why does God give us mercy and blessings at all!

44But I tell you: Love your enemies[a] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? - Matthew 5: 44-46