But I can already give examples - from the book of Job. Job was a very blessed and wealthy man, with a major agribusiness, largescale landowner, major employer, big family and so on. He was also a godly and upright man.
He lost virtually everything in one day. His livestock, his transportation (camels), his seven children, the first born's house, all gone.
When he learned of one disaster after another, he had in fact several options: one to be angry at fate, angry and bitter at the thieves and raiding parties, angry at God for the storm that took his children, resentful, looking around for someone to blame, feeling unjustly treated in the loss of everything he had worked so hard for, deeply hurt and angry at losing such important material things, and even his wonderful children. Those would be the normal temptations at the attitude level. Later, when he got boils all over his body and smelled so bad that he went out to sit on the ash heap, his "friends" came to "comfort him." They could not believe that he had not committed some terrible crime to warrent this kind of judgement. Another temptation to retort (and he was not silent) in very vehement and nasty terms. They advised him to "curse God and die." Certainly, this might have been very tempting to him. For he was absolutely convinced that he had not committed any morally wrong act. Instead, his response was to say:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. (Job 1:21-22)
The story is of course of the Accuser saying that the only reason Job did not sin against God was because he had it so good. And that if God allowed him, the Accuser, to take everything Job owned this would cause Job to sin. That's where the temptation comes in, and why I use this story as a basis for believing that hardships are closely linked with temptation - the temptation to look for someone to blame (the original feature of both Adam and Eve's sin, was to blame someone else for their own actions - the temptation was to escape responsibility by "giving" it so someone else falsely accusing this other of causing their moral wrongdoing.) But also in Job's case, the temptation to believe that material well being was so very important, almost more important than life itself, the temptation to think that somehow we have earned it, and have lost it unjustly, not recognising that everything we have, including life itself, is a gift that we cannot claim to deserve.
The lesson we draw from Job's story and which Paul reiterated was "In everything give thanks." The impulse to react in any other way, is a temptation to do wrong. Jesus gave another example in praying for the forgiveness of the men nailing him to the cross while they were doing it. He would not succoumb to the temptation to curse them, be bitter towards them, resentful of their complicity and their unthinking attitude "I'm just doing what I was told to do." When he had fasted for 40 days and nights, he did not submit to the temptation to turn stone into bread, or submit to the other temptations that were put before him ... during the period of his hardship.