This is wicked. This is worse than Demonic. This is the an example of a true Psychopath
By what standard?
If we all evolved arbitrarily from a primordial soup with no purpose or design, how is this “wicked,” as you say? How can you say God is “wicked” when you deny the Bible, the very book that defines “wicked?” Even further, in your atheistic, materialistic, and evolutionary worldview, such things are neither right nor wrong because there is no God in your view to establish what is right or wrong. Do you not profess to believe in a naturalistic view where animals rape, murder, and eat their own kind? Yet you attack the loving God of the Bible and try to call him evil?
But God does exist, and it is God who defines what is good and what is evil.
God permits evil to exist, but God is not the author of evil.
“Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.” (1 Chronicles 21:1)
In order to achieve his purposes, sometimes God sovereignly permits Satan to act. God can use Satan in various ways, with the result being the refining, disciplining, and purification of disobedient believers (Luke 22:31–32; 1 Corinthians 5:1–5; 2 Corinthians 12:7–10). Such might have been the case with David. God allowed Satan to tempt him, and David sinned, revealing his pride, and God then dealt with David accordingly.
Why, when he was the one who had sinned, did the people have to suffer? He even requested that God’s hand be against him and his family only, and that God would spare the people. But, as with the account of Job, God chose not to give a reason for His actions. Perhaps it was because of Israel’s multiplied sins and rebellion against God throughout the centuries. Perhaps it was a lesson to the people (and to us as well) that the people suffer when their leaders go astray. The reality is that God didn’t justify his actions with a reason, nor does he have to.
Of the three choices presented to David, the first two would have involved some level of dependency upon the mercy of man: the warfare, of course, would be as severe as the enemy wanted it to be; the famine would require Israel to seek food from other nations, relying on the pity of their neighbors. Instead of relying on the mercy of any human, David chose to rely on the mercy of God—the pestilence was, after all, the most direct form of punishment from God, and in the plague they could only look to God for relief.
As we see in 2 Samuel 24:16, God was grieved because of the things that were happening to his people, and he called off the punishment. Even in his rebuke God still shows his love and mercy.
The intent of many of those who make claims like yours — that God is “wicked,” etc. is to make a good God look evil in order to justify their rejection of him, his word, or even his existence. But if God really doesn’t exist and the Bible isn’t his word, then those who attack God and his word by calling him harsh and evil shouldn’t even care to attack him. By attacking him, they show that they know he exists and are simply suppressing that knowledge (see Romans 1:20–25). They are trying to justify their rebellion against God. Few that I have spoken with realize that when they attack God’s character in an effort to make a case against his existence they are refuting their own position.