[Steve sighs. It takes him a moment to get started, to gather his words. This is something he's thought about... too much, maybe, but he's never been able to talk to anybody about it before. He's never wanted to. So he's got a lot of thoughts, but he's not sure how to put them all into words.]

It has to do with free will, I guess. People have to be able to make their own choices. They can choose to do good things or bad things. Most terrible things in the world come back to people. If God made it so bad things didn't happen... well, I think it would mean forcing people to be good, and that would take their choices away.

[He frowns a little. It matches up with his thoughts, but it still feels weird to say it all aloud.]

Does that make sense?