Or perhaps in anger, demanding an answer. God's answer is not just to give us words, but to give us Jesus. He gave us himself. He entered space and time and suffering. He came, like a lover.
Love seeks above all intimacy, presence, togetherness.
Remove Jesus and the knowledge of God is questionable. Suffering is the evidence against God, the reason not to trust him. Jesus is the evidence for God, the reason to trust him. It is significant that Jesus rose from the dead with a body that still bore the marks of his sufferings in his hands, his feet and his side. Throughout all eternity he will bear those scars.