Tonus -One can infer this from what is being said and described. I assume that you take this same approach with Isaiah 45:7, for example.
The verse in Isaiah reiterates what we've already agreed, that God is capable of both punishment and salvation. The fact that he creates opposites seems to equate to God being confused to you.
It's a reasonable assessment. Also, if we cannot know the mind of god, then it is presumptuous to claim that it is not his assessment as well. How do you know this?
We know at least what his word tells us. Clearly not everything we learn of him gives us a warm and fuzzy feeling. Many things are even unsettling. The creator of the Flood, nearly wiping out all of his human creation? The creator of something as terrible as hell? It's not for nothing that he refers to himself as a "fear inspiring God". In the mind of many he simply cannot be someone who incites both fear and love, and so they reject him.