Evidence for the Existence of a Merciful God

This past year we have seen so much grief, pain and horror: bodies floating down the Ganges as Covid rages in India, medical personnel exhausted and dying in their efforts to care for those who have gotten sick, fracture in our social and political culture that threatens to destroy our country, alongside the world's usual quota of war, illness, accident, and danger. Where is God? Why doesn't He DO something?? I have no Pollyanna answer, but I do have evidence that the merciful God of the Bibl...