The answer lies in the realization that without righteous indignation against everything which would contravene His holiness, God could not be God in a moral universe. Consider the man who out of “love” for his wife would not protect her from attack. We would rightly describe such despicable action as cowardice of the most repugnant kind. Genuine love requires righteous rejection of that which is essentially opposite to love. A holy God must hate sin in order to love righteousness. His character