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While we hate the sin, we love the sinner. And because we are commanded to "love one another as ourselves" and would would not upon our own volition gladly enter into hell, we should take extreme measures concerning preventing others from doing so despite their ignorance in that regard.

1 Pt 4:12-19 tells us all that we need to know about standing up for righteousness.

Scripture tells the believer that if they follow Christ, and carry the cross in His name to:

1) Expect suffering (Ps 66:10, Isa 48:10, 1 Pt 1:6,7) 2), especially since 1 Pt 2:20,21 initmates the believer is called to suffer for Christ's sake.

2) regardless of a Christian's tribulations with respect to their efforts to pull souls from hell's fire, they should exhalt in the suffering forecast for them in that regard (1 Pt 4:13,14): 1 Thess 2:19. Peter describes in v13 something analagous to the pain a women experiences during childbirth, and yet the very thing causing the pain is the source of extreme joy i.e. a baby. In these verses Peter also exhorts the believer to exhalt in both Christ's name and spirit while experiencing suffering carrying His cross.

3) the believer should ensure that the suffering that they're to endure is for righteousness sake; suffering because of a drunken driving conviction doesn't count e.g.

4) the believer entrusts their very own soul to God (v19) as one would commit money to a bank for at least security, but with the hope of interest paid.

Did I answer the qwexion? If not let me be succinct: its wrong to relish in the misery of anybody. Its entirely proper to celebrate with extreme joy the entry into heaven (through their faith in the attoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross at Golgotha) of the most heinous, despicable, villanous person on their death-bead.