Who said God is kind? God is kind—and cruel, too. God is good—and bad, too. We can’t put God into a box of our own construction. God is both good and evil, and beyond any boxes or definitions that we may fabricate.
So then, what is the thing we call evil? Its appeal is certainly real enough. In the simplest terms, evil is that which we do not like: “A poisonous snake is evil because it wants to kill me. Therefore, if I kill a poisonous snake, I am eliminating an evil. So that is good, right?” The snake would certainly disagree. Is that not egoistic thinking? Egoistic thinking is what creates evil. So evil is not the problem. Egocentricity is the problem.
For the one who commits a crime, jail is an evil. But from the point of view of society, jail is good. Jails are created for the bad guys. (So are hells.)
Only by bitter experience can one be brought to the path of love and light. Suffering can be a blessing in disguise if one learns to make use of it. The ultimate objective of evil is to bring the sufferers to the path of love, of the gurus. Evil, by showing its contrast with peace, likewise shows us the value of peace and love.
In sum: whatever God does is best. (But then, sometimes, God is a little evil, too!)
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