How to define God's love? Can it be compared to human compassion, which consists in helping his fellow man when he goes through a difficult situation? Is it just to reach to the needy, to mourn with those who weep and carry the burdens of one another? While all this is laudable, God sees things very differently than we, his gaze penetrates not only the present, but all eternity. The divine compassion always walk together with his righteousness: they never contradict one and other.
The problem that resides within this "human compassion" is that in its desire to comfort the miserable, it misses the real cause of the fundamental problem of man. In doing so, it takes the party of the sinner that refuses to recognize his personal responsibility, to justify it on his childhood or his environment, "the system", etc.. Therefore, by doing this, it avoids to talk about sin to not guilty in order the person you wish to help. How can you cure a problem, such as a disease, if you at first refused to recognize its existence? No patient wants to receive a cure before he recognized the fact that he is sick. But sin is a disease much worse than cancer, which is fatal, and incurable sin poisons all human existence; only the blood of the Lamb erases all traces.
As an ostrich who hides its head in the sand and deny the existence of her problem, that attitude in no way solves the situation. Rather, it is better to look things in front and admit that for humans, it is impossible to avoid the power of sin excepts only by the salvation offered in Christ Jesus. God sees our sin as something grave, very serious, it has long stated that these consequences could only be death.
" but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. " Genesis 2:17
We never see God saying to man: "Ah, you have sinned... it does not really matter. I understand you, we forget all this and I forgive you!" The world would have us believe this lie, but the divine reality remains otherwise.
" For the wages of sin is death [ ... ] " Romans 6:23
God would not apply to us the kind of compassion that we could simply exercise to one of our fellows. Because then the requirements of justice could not be met or satisfied.