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Who among us has not encountered a situation where gentle appeals to correction fall on deaf and unwilling ears? How often has God first said, "Come, let us reason", and that failing, resorted to the means alone through which correction would be motivated?

Even after 40 years in the desert, Israel remained "a stiff-necked people", just as we remain obdurate in our sins until some calamity befalls us that finally causes us to recognize that the way we

have chosen --- which was not God's way, and distinctly contrary to it --- is precisely what brought calamity upon us ... and not God, Who relentlessly called us away from it. After how many appeals to a child not to touch a hot stove, does the child yet persist until, apart from our will, he has his way ... and to great sorrow? Who will call us to account? Only after he is afflicted does he see, understand, that our appeals were motivated not by malice, but by love, and that, after all, our wisdom exceeds his own? Sometimes, perhaps even often, affliction is the only way through which we begin to trust God --- Who in all ways and in every place, seeks our good. In our fallen state, even this too often fails. So Jesus Christ came to reveal his Father not as one eager to inflict punishment --- but as LOVE. In Exodus we read, "God is a God of mercy, slow to anger and abounding in truth and love" (Exodus 34.6). And still Israel wandered in the desert for a generation. In the 2nd letter of St. Peter, we are told, "He is patient with you, because he does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins". When the human heart is cleansed from sin, when a heart is pure it does not fear punishment --- it knows God as love (1 John 4.18). It comes to know God as "Abba", as "Father" in the most meaningful and intimate way. It comes to understand that nothing proceeds from the hand of the Father but good, and precisely because it does not always comprehend, faith supplants understanding, and through that faith, trusts! The soul, that is to say, comes to a loving trust in God that it would never have acquired apart from that anvil of Righteous Anger... upon which it was forged by the love of God.

So, what if God did get angry at times? he is the one who created me, so as far as that goes it could be do as i say, not necessarily do as i do.

I heard that many times from my elders when i was young, people who do not control their children to some degree are
making a heavier load for them selves as well as making it rough for the young ones.

Getting angry and being able to control anger is different,
if you grow your child up letting it have its own way, then it is more apt to go into a rage if it don,t get its own way.

I don,t know if Jesus was angry or not but this scripture indicates he was not pleased.

Matt ch 21
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Could it be that some times it takes a little anger to get a childs attention? not necessary referring to age.