Nowhere in the Bible is hell described as a place of punishment; instead, the term used is torment (Gk. basanos). The torment of hell is the lack of God's grace, caused by the refusal of those here to have accepted it; put more simply, the love of God compels Him to allow those who do not wish His presence in their lives to not have that presence. The love of God requires the existence of a hell, because if God made everyone accept His salvation, then God would be, not love, but tyranny.
“Nowhere in the Bible is hell described as a place of punishment;”
Others would disagree with that:
“45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me. ’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life (Matthew 25:45-46 ESV)”