God: A Cosmic Mr. Rogers?

"While falling all over ourselves trying to conceal this 'embarrassing' feature of God's character (the wrath of God), we've sent this signal to our culture: God is infinitely understanding, sympathetic, patient, and sentimental. God is nice! God is a kind of cosmic Mr. Rogers, always ready to greet you with a warm smile and a pleasant word.

Because we have difficulty reconciling wrath with our perception of a loving God, the Church and this culture have sought to create God in their own image. But Scripture makes no apologies concerning the wrath of God. In fact, A.W. Pink notes that there are more references to God's wrath in the Bible than to his love. We probably don't have any of these passages underlined, but perhaps we should. We need to give serious study to the wrath of God."
~C.J. Mahaney

I found this quote at Reformed Voices. It think it is so important to "[n]otice how God is both kind and severe (Romans 11:22, NLT). The author of the quote is C.J. Mahaney. He is the president of Sovereign Grace Ministries and has also authored many books. I highly recommend his book Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing. It's a short book too, so you could probably finish it an afternoon.