Hell is not real.
Our modern Bibles use the word hell a lot, but they're simply bad translations. Take for example the KJV. It is completely inconsistent in it's translation of the following four words, which are sometimes translated as "hell", but only when it refers to the wicked dying.
Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Taratarus.
The words sheol and Hades both mean "underworld / abode of the dead", and this is a place where all people are said to go upon death, not only the wicked.
The KJV however conveniently translates sheol as "hell" when it refers to the wicked dying (Proverbs 9:18) but translates it as "the grave" when it refers to the righteous dying (Genesis 44:31). The bias should be obvious.
The NIV does not use the word in the old testament, only the new. Young's Literal Translation doesn't use the word hell at all, because it's a literal translation. Go figure. Hell does not exist in the original manuscripts. It's a pagan concept that was usurped by the church to scare people into obedience, and especially into paying the tithe.
"Since the multitude is ever fickle, full of lawless desires, irrational passions and violence, there is no other way to keep them in order but by the fear and terror of the invisible world; on which account our ancestors seem to me to have acted judiciously, when they contrived to bring into the popular belief these notions of the gods, and of the infernal regions." Polybius
"I further believe, although certain persons deny it, that the influence of fear is to be exercised over the minds of men and that it ought to operate upon the mind of the preacher himself." Charles Spurgeon
"The multitude are restrained from vice by the punishments the gods are said to inflict upon offenders, and by those terrors and threatenings which certain dreadful words and monstrous forms imprint upon their minds...For it is impossible to govern the crowd of women, and all the common rabble, by philosophical reasoning, and lead them to piety, holiness and virtue - but this must be done by superstition, or the fear of the gods, by means of fables and wonders; for the thunder, the aegis, the trident, the torches (of the Furies), the dragons, &c., are all fables, as is also all the ancient theology. These things the legislators used as scarecrows to terrify the childish multitude." Strabo