will take vengeance, vengeance

Oh, Pat. You have it all wrong. Perhaps He will destroy the town for its unfaith. Perhaps He would have rewarded their righteousness had they gone the other way. But vindictiveness in response to sin is pre-grace. We, in fact, can and should keep turning to Him regardless of the number of eyepokings we deliver. It is an empty faith where God tallies a sincount with a limit, over which His back is turned. That's no Savior-on-the-cross that I know.