Well, to be honest, whenever someone says that, I just tell them to take it up with the Guy who said it. Yes, of course His message is “love”, but since when does “love” mean “let people do what they like when they like”? Parents love their kids and reign them in, guide them, sometimes punish them.
Surely, as a Jew, that’s far from an alien concept to you seeing as how God has repeatedly done that to Israel over the millenia.
I do not believe that God does things to Israel or anyone else, at least not to a point where we can discern the specifics.
Are you saying that God has punished Israel through the years? If so, why?