h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It has always been to my understanding that God was supposed to be the perfect being. On that idea, I wonder why then, is there suffering on earth due to free will? Free will, considered God's gift to man by many, causes pain every day to uncountable numbers of people. Now, if God is as loving as he is made out to be, then that would intale that he never wanted his children to suffer. With that in mind, since people are, in fact suffering, that would intale that God was either oblivious to what humanity would inflict upon itself, making him ignorant to something, thus imperfect, and thus no better than humans, or God was aware that people would be terrible to eachother at times, and thus not only allowing suffering, but anticipating it. This would make God the greatest in child abusers, and, like abused children, we as a race should sever our attachments to such a parent and go into the adoptive care of the intellectual world. But that's just me.