I wrote an article a year ago answering that. For me, it is a non-issue. Evil exists because man has free will. Free will exists because God willed it. And God willed it because He values it. If the Creator of reality values genuine human agency, who are we to argue that He should have made puppets instead? The irony is that we value it too. You can see it in how even the most secular societies structure themselves. Every legal code, every defense of human rights, and the entire foundation of civilization is built on the dignity of human choice. We celebrate personal freedom as our highest virtue, yet the moment people use that freedom to inflict pain, we turn around and blame God for giving us the choice in the first place. Most crucially, God was never indifferent to our suffering. He did not watch human tragedy from behind glass. He stepped straight into the dirt of history, took on human flesh, and endured the absolute worst of it Himself. He submitted to betrayal, torture, and a brutal execution. He absorbed the full weight of human cruelty, broke its finality, and commanded all suffering to serve His redemption. The problem is that you guys are so soaked in life on earth that you think far too much of it. You mistake the opening scene for the entire play, and evaluate eternity through the narrow lens of seventy or eighty fragile years. The Bible says that one day this world will be rolled away like a scroll, and we will be ushered into eternal glory and delight. Suffering has no ultimate sting, and death has no final power. God tasted them both, conquered them, and told us not to worry.