How Can a World Full of Evil and Suffering Be a Part of God’s Plan?

The author walks us through the horrors of war and the longing for answers in the book of Lamentations in this article. (<--- that underlined word is a hyperlink. Click on it to open the article). 

Here is an excerpt:

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness,” Grossman observed. “The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed—while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”