Some people say they can't understand how God can hate sin and yet love the sinner, but surely it is not difficult to see this.
"God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8). Please notice these words: "While we were yet sinners." It does not say, "when we had gotten to be saints"; yet that is the way some would wish us to read the gospel story. God loved us while we were still sinners, and the proof of His love is seen in His having given Christ to die for us.
If you have a child who has been smitten with smallpox and must be quarantined, you don't hate your child, but you abhor the smallpox. It has come between you and your child, and you long for the day when the sickness will be over and your child can be restored to you.
God's love for man has never failed since the day that man came forth from his Creator’s hand, but sin has entered and separated man from God, and the wages of sin is death. Punishments and penalties have fallen upon transgressors, but love remains. To all who read these lines we would say, God loves you, and longs to bless and save you. Why not take Him at His word and rest in that love?