Question Number 1

Today I will try to answer the first question, which is why God's people seem to have so many problems. It seems like it should be the immoral people that have the problems, but like I said in my previous post: life doesn't fit the blueprints.
First of all, the pain that Christians experience comes in two varieties. The first is pretty simple. It's called "discipline."

Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; therefore be zealous and repent.

This is Jesus speaking to the church at Laodicea. He chastens--disciplines--the ones that He loves. So that covers a part of it. God doesn't discipline those who aren't His children. They don't experience pain, although ultimately it won't be a painful experience.
C.S. Lewis pointed out* that to a puppy, discipline is a terrible thing, and therefore the master who is disciplining him must be cruel and terrible. But years later, this dog will be much better-off than the wild one that never received any discipline at all.
But surely this doesn't cover everything. What about the people who are actually doing well, morally? A master doesn't punish a good dog, right? So there must be a different kind of suffering that is not instigated by God.
There is.
Think about this question with me, for a moment. When is driving the most frustrating? Is it while you're on the highway, cruising along at seventy--or eighty-five, if you're inclined to break the law--or stuck in heavy traffic? Driving on an empty road doesn't require much thought. It's when other vehicles are around that you have to use your brain.
So?
Driving is harder with other people around. So is writing. I was doing well, and then a large amount of people walked into the room, and I can't seem to keep my train of thought. Business is harder when competition comes in. Socializing alone is easier when other people are around, and this is one of the hardest things imaginable.
Life is not excluded from this list. It would be incalculably easier to be the only person on Earth. Of course, it would also be a lot lonelier.
The point is, other people cause the most pain in life. Whether because your friend dies or because your friend stabs you in the back, people cause you pain far more than God. After all, it was people who smashed planes into the World Trade Center, and it's people--not God--who go around starting wars.
This has sort of led us in a circle, because the next logical question is really the one I started with. Why does God allow pain? although it's become, Why does God allow people to cause pain to each other?
Followed through to the end, what would it mean that God doesn't let us cause pain to each other? It would mean that we have no free will. Free will means that we can do whatever we want, no matter how stupid it is or how much it might hurt someone. For God to be constantly preventing people from shooting each other and treating their neighbor as they don't want to be treated, He would take away a huge chunk of our options.
I guess you can still blame it on God--Why did He give us free will, then?--but life wouldn't be worth much if we couldn't actually do anything. And free will doesn't just create pain. It also creates ample opportunity for kindness, mercy and generosity.
So make sure to use your free will wisely, and I'll use mine to go eat dinner.
Goodbye, valiant reader,
Hungry Mitchell

*In, "The Problem of Pain," I think.