Why don't sinners suffer as much as Christian people?

Answer 1

Very great philosophers and theologians have pondered this question

for centuries. The best answer I can give you is this Sonnet by Gerard Manley

Hopkins.

THOU art indeed just, Lord, if I contend

With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.

Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must

Disappointment all I endeavour end?

Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend,

How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost

Defeat, thwart me? Oh, the sots and thralls of lust

Do in spare hours more thrive than I that spend,

Sir, life upon thy cause. See, banks and brakes

Now, leavèd how thick! lacèd they are again

With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes

Them; birds build--but not I build; no, but strain,

Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.

Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

.............................................................

Sinners do indeed suffer as much as Christian people. The question itself is somewhat disturbing, suggesting a sort of pious envy, as if the sicknesses, pain, grief, and misery endured by people outside one's own faith community were somehow less real than one's own.