God’s preference in communicating with people is His still, small voice. He doesn’t typically raise His voice unless He has to. Unfortunately, for many people, nothing less than a heavenly shout will get their attention.
If God can woo us with His love and blessings, then He will reach out to us that way. Generally that is how God begins His overtures. Incredibly, frail humanity will often brazenly ignore the call of its Master and continue racing to its ruin.
So God will use harsher means to gain our attention and to turn us from our sin. Some will always ask why, if God is love, He allows people to suffer. The answer, in part, is that God loves us too much to neglect doing whatever is necessary for the good of His people. His goal for us is not comfort but godliness. His purpose is not our success but His glory.
Sadly, it often takes a crisis in our lives before we remember who God is and what role He intends to have in our lives. Does God have to deal with you forcibly before He can convince you to do what He asks? Or, is your heart so tender toward Him that the slightest divine whisper is sufficient to redirect you back to the purposes of heaven?