And the children of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems best to You; only deliver us this day, we pray." 16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD. And His soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel.
Judges 10:15-16

The book of Judges is a record of Israel’s repeated spiritual infidelity against the Lord. It is also a record of God’s super-abundant fidelity to His people. When the people turned against the Lord, which inevitably caused their misery, they still cried out to Him for help.

The first help God afforded them was to call them to repentance. When they repented, God forgave and restored them, time and time again!

Why? Because, in His kindness, God “became weary of Israel’s misery.”

Know this about our kind and loving God. When we are in misery—even if it is because of our sin, God becomes weary of our misery.

Stated in another way, God hates to see us suffer—even when it is because of our sin. Oh, how He loves us!