"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
This verse also shows that God is angry with wickedness.  The present day conception of God as a mild, indulgent father-image of one who loves everybody no matter what they do, and as one who will never actually punish anyone, is a gross perversion of the truth.  Every sin is an affront to God, who is "angry with the wicked every day" and who will by no means accommodate himself finally to human sin and unrighteousness.  Abel's blood still cries to God from the ground  (Genesis 4:10); Sodom and Gomorrah; Tyre and Sidon; the whole antediluvian world; and many other wicked civilizations were wiped off the face of the earth by divine judgments against their wickedness; and it is no contradiction of the love and justice of God who will surely spare the penitent, that he will also ultimately overthrow and destroy the wicked.