I have always loved what Philip Yancey wrote about how God feels about human suffering. I can’t find the exact quote, but I think it was in The Jesus I Never Knew. I’m paraphrasing here, but basically he said that he can’t really know why God allows suffering, but he can know how God feels about it by looking at Jesus’ face, and that face is a face streaked with tears. Jesus wept when his friend Lazarus died, he grieved with the grieving and he raised the dead and healed the sick. Clearly, God is not indifferent to human suffering; in fact, he hates it.