So is he complicit or powerless? Is he waiting for extreme suffering before intervention? How does he measure the suffering?
Maybe Obama destroying the Constitution and chaining up his people isn`t even on his radar.
This is the classic ‘problem of evil’. What would you have God do? Reach down and stop you and every person on the planet every time you’re about to do something wrong? Where is the freedom in that? He might as well have created puppets on strings.
We are given free will because it means much more to CHOOSE good than to be forced into it. Let me present you a microcosm. Which is better, charity or communism? Both may end up feeding a downtrodden individual, but does charity not have more value than communism, because I willingly decided to help another? I would say it does.
You've ignored a third option: that evil is a collateral possibility which God tolerates a consequence of allowing entities to make choices.
Since the only other alternative is "allowing no choices," --- a full-scale totalitarian dictatorship, or a Matrix-world where every other entity is just a CGI living an illusion --- His choice of "Let there be freedom" isn't evil after all.
Especially since He has provided a way out of sin and death.
But since you're not a CGI, He won't "force" you to use your freedom to do good and not evil.