The above was mis-typed on my Android while I was traveling yesterday. It should have said "The important part is that He CARED for them."
Yes, I agree. God cares for all of us. He wants to have fellowship with us and with His creation. And, He wants the best for us; to spend our time in perfect love, joy, peace. He wants the very best for us. And even God's wrath is meant to draw us to Himself-to find that love and joy. That is the type of God He is-even to the wretched city of Nineveh.
The sad part is that we, as Adam's race, don't really want to have fellowship with God. We are willing to sell Paradise and everything that He has given us for a bite of a fruit. And, even after we become believers, we measure ourselves in terms of what we have done for God and question God's wisdom when He causes earthquakes or distress in our own lives. We're all guilty of it. We don't really understand the beauty and holiness of God and, in particular, the wretchness of our own selves.
That is our human condition and, fortunately, one that God knows all too well. We minimize God's glory of what He's done for us while maximizing what we believe is our goodness.
God cares for us. And unless God takes action to help us past this condition, we not only will reject Him but we will seep further into rebellion.