Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
D. There is suffering that appears to have no rational basis whatever.  The innocent, the pure and the godly also suffer; and the pattern of it seems to follow no rationale whatever.  Many a devout soul has shared some of the bitterest sufferings of life, agonies from which there was no appeal possible; and such souls have, with the Saviour on the cross, cried out in agony, "My God, my God, why?"  Feeble and imperfect must be any person's wrestling with so deep a question, but we are driven to seek some kind of answer.