Why is it that we are comfortable with evangelical clichés about God "loving the sinner but hating the sin," when within the first fifty psalms alone there are fourteen passages where God is explicitly said to hate the sinner, or to be angry with the sinner, or the like? I am not for a moment suggesting there is no truth at all in the cliché....
Even so, after all caveats have been entered, the distance between our perception of where the problem lies and the perceptions of the biblical writers is one of the most sobering considerations for those who take the Bible seriously.
It is one more indication that we have given ourselves to thinking great thoughts about human beings and small thoughts about God. (emphasis mine)