Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
A. We should not blame God with it, nor lose our faith, nor complain as if some unusual thing had happened.  It is the grand hallmark of all life on earth.  At the same time, we should not take a stoical attitude of bravado, as in Henley's "I am the captain of my soul."  After all, man does pretty well if he rates being a "cabin boy" on the ship of life and certainly is utterly incapable of being either the captain of his soul or the master of his fate.