Dear 'pipe, God is unaffected by evil, which He did not create and so is not in the least responsible for. The route to evil in this world comes via the human will in rebellion against God's Will. I don't think you can blame God for that. A human being must be left "free to sin," in order to dignify and make meaningful his decision to follow God.
The problem of evil does not affect God; it only affects man. It enters the world only through human decisions, of the sort against which we already have been amply warned by God Himself in not one, but four separate, yet entirely harmonious divine revelations.
Well, my two cents FWIW.
What IS evil?..
Angels rebelled "they" say.. generating "evil"???...
What was Satan doing in the Garden of Eden with those "innocent" new humans?.. Where did he come from?.. Is murder evil?.. since nobody actually dies.. Everybody lives forever somewhere(Heaven/Hell).. whatever they are...
This drama on this planet is a great mystery.. How would we know good without evil or evil without good?.. Is it all merely double entry accounting?.. debits offsetting credits on one side of the ledger and the same on the other side?.. With a Balance Sheet and Income statement?.
Could be the "EVIL" is not so evil and the "GOOD" is not so good.. The ultimate universal "observer problem"... Its hard to be humble and just be content with "whatever it is, it IS".. and have the faith of a little child..
You know; dealing with that damned Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.. was a serious mistake.. Causing questions impossible to answer.. tempting simplistic solutions..
God was right... Divining good and evil is well beyond mankind and even ANGELS...