God doesn't punish us with works of evil. God never said our paths would be easy. Trust in him doesn't guarantee immunity to all evil. We are given blessings, but bad things still happen. But the tricky part is taking those misfortunes and using them to help others . You can take misfortune and turn it into a gift.

I know christians who have had death in there families, loss of a child, cancer, businesses fail and yet they are still here. They still love the lord. They are helping others from the difficulties that have occurred to them.

A perfect example is..... I was raped many time by an older boyfriend as a teenager. It changed my life in a most negative way. But I have the Lord and had a trust in God when that happened to me. (though at that time I has strayed quite a bit) But in the long run 25 years later, I can see it as a gift. I have the ability to help others who have been in the same place as me, I am able to help other teenage girls see that they need to be very careful .

A friend of mine had cancer and he said that was the greatest gift he ever received (years later). He has been able to minister to those who are sick and in pain dealing with cancer, to those who are struggling, and to the families of cancer survivors. With out cancer coming into his life he would have never been able to help people in that way.

Bad thing do come out way it is human nature. God doesn't keep us from human realities, but we do have him to lean on in the face of disaster and hard ship. He is God not a Genie.

Hope that helps. That is just how I see things.

Where there is good, there is evil.
There is an opposite of God and that's a devil, or someone who creates misfortune upon others. God doesn't do it, his opposite does.
I do not believe that we are responsible for all of our misfortunes. I believe that there is both good and evil in the world and sometimes evil gives us a hard time, and sometimes God gives us blessings. It's not that we are bad people that God is punishing us or something. It's just that there is evil on earth and sometimes it finds it way to us.

My view of God is that Gods only power is to give love. God doesnt create disease or cause disaster, nature does that, but, when someone is sick or there's a hurricane, its Gods love that brings people together to help each other.

I try to avoid the dual thinking process of 'for every good, there is an evil'. It makes me choose sides and feeds divisions. It helps me to think of best possible outcomes in any situation. I think its called transcendence but it simply means not focusing on the negative and looking for and working at solutions. Simple awareness of problems is enough. Worry and rumination cause stress and stress is unhealthy so I try to avoid it.

Gods love has brought many blessings into my life. I dont blame God for society and what happens inside of it. I more likely would believe, if anything, that its a deficit of love, a disconnection from the greater good, which causes many of humanitys' ailments.