Is hell worse for some?
If so, is it based upon the number of sins committed or the type of sin committed?
For example, if someone committed adultery all their lives vs someone who committed adultery once. Would one's punishment be worse then?
I do not believe the point of Hell is to be a place of active punishment(s) and torture; yes Hell is agony and torturous, but not because there are people in bubbling pits of oil or being pitchforked in the rear by red-hoofed devils.
St. John the Divine describes the lake of fire and brimstone as "the second death", where even Death and Hades are themselves cast into. The concept of "second death" is as abstract as it is peculiar, but if we see it as being in contrast to God's intended designs for all creation, as we see in words of the Prophets and also echoed by John in his Apocalypse, a renewal, healing, and restoring of all things and a life everlasting completely free from death, sorrow, pain, and sin then we might have a better idea of what "second death" entails. That is, fundamentally, Hell is
not that. It is not the joyous renewal of all life and creation in the sharing of God for eternity. Something which by comparison to the fullness of life can only be described as a kind of death beyond death itself.
St. Isaac of Nineveh, a 7th century Christian theologian from what is today modern Iraq, makes the argument that since God is omnipresent and omnibenevolent then there can be no place where God is not, and there can be no escaping His all-encompassing love. We should remember the Psalmist even says, "If I make my bed in She'ol, you are there", for there is no escaping the Divine Presence, for God is everywhere. Hell, therefore, is not the absence of God's presence, it is not the absence of His love, it is as much fully saturated with the presence and love of God as can be. The critical difference is that, for the wicked and unredeemed, this experience is pure agony; for having sinned against God and neighbor their entire lives they must now endure the One who is pure Love Himself, and this is a torment far more agonizing than all possible punishments conceivable. As it is like here on earth that the betrayal of a close friend brings a remorse far worse than any punishment, or to use a more familiar analogy, it is far worse to hear your parent say, "I'm disappointed" than to simply be angry.
So, I think, in that sense, yes Hell might very well be worse for some than others; in that one's grief, sorrow, and guilt over what they have done will be far more intense than for others. But we must remember that nobody is in Hell by accident, or by God being petty or capricious, there is none in Hell except those who willingly and intentionally go there.
-CryptoLutheran