Is God on our side?

Discussion in class confirmed that the God in the bible is a jealous one. It states that he wants the best for humanity and yet there is so much evidence against that. Such as the pain and suffering that we see everyday, not to mention tragic events such as natural disasters. God is said to be 'all powerful, all knowing and all good', therefore by believing in him it is confirming that everything that happens is because he decided it would be so. But this cannot be true if he is allowing terrible events such as the Holocaust. If God were truly good he wouldn't support such pain and suffering.
My thoughts are that if God created us in his image, which brings along some similar characteristics. The creator is able to view our world and our problems, much like watching a drama series. Humans have a history of loving violence, although we don't agree with it we cannot tear out eyes away from the torture. Evidence of this is can be seen from countless events from gladiator shows to the present times of movies like saw or hostile. These events focus on the torturing people. God obviously receives some joying in watching the suffering of human kind. In the beginning he could see that man was making strides in learning, therefore he decided to interfere and make things harder. This is when he knocked people off the tower spreading them across the world with different languages. What other reason would he do this except for that he enjoys watching us struggle. By separating us across the world made us lose our unity and instead create different groups of which there was turmoil between. If we were left being one community there would be less problems in our world, which god wouldn't allow. He knew what would happen and our troubles are obviously what pleases him.