I just posted this in another thread, and I feel it can apply here as well:
In my view, God does not control us, and that is His deliberate choice. He gave us the gift of allowing us to live as we choose, even if our choices do not follow Him.
I feel the Bible supports this view, as a whole. We see, consistently, stories of people choosing to serve Him and people choosing not to serve Him, and God providing means to turn back.
But it is still our choice.
And at the end of the day, I believe God is good, and that He does not delight in evil, and that while His desires never change, He is willing to make adaptations in His plans to ensure that His message gets heard. I see the Bible as supporting this as well. God created man and woman, and they disobeyed. So He kicked them out of the garden, and they then lived with the knowledge of both good AND evil. Man lived in relative peace for a long time, until at some point things went awry, and God repented of making man, and decided to send a flood to rid the world of evil. And then after that man lived, again, in relative peace for a time, until the days of Pharoah and Moses. God saw man going astray, so He wrote Commandments in stone and used Moses to show His people how to behave.
And so forth. I see things happening in the Bible that were not God's plan, and I see God making provision to bring His people back to Him. Does that mean God Himself changes? NO! What it means is that while God does not change, His people do, and He is willing to allow us to change, and willing to turn evil around for good.
Does that make my theology horrible? Does that make me an unregenerate? Does the belief that God is more Good than ANYTHING else mean that I serve a different God than you?
I believe the answer to all of those questions is NO. You are entitled to your belief and doctrine, but you are NOT entitled to bash my belief if it differs from yours.