In our shiur this week we will answer this question, demonstrating why the world waits anxiously for G-d's revenge. The Torah describes the obligation to exact revenge from a murderer, one whose act was intentional and premeditated. And do not flatter the land that you are in, for blood flatters the land, and the earth will not atone for the blood that was spilled in it, except with the blood of the murderer. Giving something undeserved, in order that the recipient, in turn, gives you something as well, is flattery. And so too, the earth flatters the wicked, giving produce and all their needs, which come forth from the earth, and also a place to live, and build themselves, although the wicked do not deserve any of this.
Flattery means providing a benefit that is disproportionate to the recipient's merits.
This behavior is inappropriate and unjustified, for reward should be in direct corellation with one's deeds. The earth, and all of Olam HaZeh, are responsible for reflecting the will of G-d in the physical dimension of this world. By sustaining the wicked, life's true aim is distorted, and evildoers are given an undeserved place in existence. Man naturally sees himself as the center of existence, relating to the world around him as a tool for his own advancement. There is truth to this perspective, for each man is a world unto itself, relating to G-d from an inner dimension that only he shares.