Habakkuk 1:3

"Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up."

Despite all of the terrible wickedness, God apparently did nothing about it; at least it seemed so to Habakkuk. Everywhere he looked, he continued to "behold iniquity and perverseness in the character and conduct of his (God's) people."[8] The question in Habakkuk's heart was, "How could God look on this condition without punishing it, thus bringing it to an end?"[9]