Yes, our suffering is to bring us to God. OK. I want you all to come to me, so I am going to make you suffer. A teenager in high schools sees a girl that he would like to ask to the prom. He decides that he needs her to come to him, to believe in him and to accept him. He decides that the best way to do this is to cause her to suffer. So he goes to her and infects her with a disease (stabbing a syringe in her arm). Later, he tells her that if she does not repent (for not yet begging him to go to prom with her) that he will kill her and will be just in doing so.

OK. I admit. That was really a stretch. But to say that someone, even a divine being, allows suffering to bring people into a loving relationship with him ... that is sadistic at best.