God is Good, but...

Really there is no addendum to that statement. God IS good! But…

God is also just. Not 'fair', but just, and just falls under the umbrella of 'good'. If God were not just, He would not be Good.

This looks problematic, and I guess it is, to an unbelieving world. Because God is just, He has to punish sin and that has a nasty look to it, often enough.

In John 12, Jesus said that He did not come to judge the world but to save it. That is indeed why He came, and yet it's possible for us to miss this salvation – to reject Him. Jesus did not condemn the harlot, yet He warned her to stop sinning.

Why?

The writer of Hebrews cautions the brethren against accepting the gift of God while yet continuing to sin, as if to take advantage of grace. Bad idea… read the warnings.

Jesus is the atonement for all who believe upon Him as such. Not accepting Him places us in a precarious position of living in sin without atonement. Judgment can fall upon a culture, but God tends to draw a clear line distinguishing who is His and who is not.

Mal 3:17 ASV
(17) And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, even mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

Accept Christ as Lord and Savior because of His substitute. He DID go in our place, because God is Good!