So your 'God' is punishing the human race with...?

God is not causing these things to happen. Soon he will put an end to all the injustice. Satan is the 'ruler of the authority of the air.' God is not intervening at this time because a very important issue needs to be settled, namely, his right to rule. Mankind in general does not want to live by God's standards. He is allowing mankind to see that they are incapable of ruling themselves. Eve decided that she knew what was best and ate from the tree that did not belong to her. Her husband followed suit. We are living in the last days of this wicked system of things. God will step in and undo all the damage that has been done. There will be a resurrection of those who have died and an opportunity for people to live forever on a cleansed paradise earth--God's original purpose. Bible prophesy cannot be ignored. If all those prophesies from the past have been proven to have come true, then why not this last promise of his?