God wants us to experience pain: many, many forms of it. It has always been His intention for the human race to fall into sin and struggle along under the context of a curse. Those who say God hates pain forget who it was that was doing all the cursing in Eden: it wasn’t Satan who came up with the idea of women having pain in childbirth or men toiling in misery. God was the One who brought all forms of pain into this world and cursed it forevermore. Adam and Eve were powerless beings whose act of biting into the flesh of a fruit had no adverse effects on the way the world worked. It was God who chose to make a big deal out of their action, and it was God who chose to use their defiance as an excuse to unleash evil into the world—evil which He demonstrated complete control over by announcing just when and how it would be loosed upon us.