God placed us on this earth and calls us His children.
He called Jesus Christ His Son.
Jesus said he would inherit all that God has. If Christ inherits ALL that God has then He is God.
Jesus has told us that His followers that are His, will inherit all that HE has. If you are a student of logic you will see that if Jesus is God and we inherit all Christ has we can become gods.
If that is true there must be some testing ground to see if we are eligible for all that. Taking a test has no value if you cheat.
When we come here to earth we are given our agency, the ability to make our own choices, if God made them for us that would be cheating. In the garden God Told Adam, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
It was a commandment with a penalty but no enforcement.
We are not forced in this life to do good, we are not even forced to not do evil. We get to choose. With the light of Christ in all of us we have that capacity to recognize good and evil and we choose based on that light and our desires. I personally believe that if we deny that light for too long we will lose it.
God giving us agency does not make Him not God. It does not make Him powerless, it makes Him gracious. He allows us to have a will and lets us follow it.
Now all that being said. Those that follow Him from time to time ask in prayer for intervention. Even then when He saves us from the evil of others He does not take the agency away from us or the evil person. He simply thwarts the evil action. A bad man may shoot a gun with the intention of killing but the bullet may go off target, perhaps the gun will jam. The evil person still did what he did and the person praying for intervention had his prayer answered.
God is in control, He just does not always take control.
I agree with you. God in His graciousness gave us the agency of free will and He will not take that away from us.
What I am saying is that anyone who reads Ezekiel would see that God is not impotent. Just as He did with Adam and Eve, God told the people through Ezekiel what He would do to those who refused to turn to Him and what He would do to those who would turn to Him. And He did as He said He would do.