God loves every one, which is why Jesus died for every one's sins, although Calvinists don't agree. (I'm not a Calvinist) But because he gave us freewill, we can choose to reject God's love. God's emotions are just and righteous whether it's love, mercy, anger, hate, or jealousy. 

I think part of the difficulty is that we have sanitized our conception of the wicked, believing that we do not regularly encounter them, or that they are easy to distinguish from "the righteous".  There are those whose wickedness is easy to see, and whose violence is not difficulty to detect.  They are the drug dealers on the corners, the brothel owners, the bullies, the slanderers, and those who prey on others mercilessly and tirelessly.

“But if a wicked man turns away from all the sins he has committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die. None of the offenses he has committed will be remembered against him. Because of the righteous things he has done, he will live. Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

“But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked man does, will he live? None of the righteous things he has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness he is guilty of and because of the sins he has committed, he will die.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear, O house of Israel: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin, he will die for it; because of the sin he has committed he will die. But if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life. Because he considers all the offenses he has committed and turns away from them, he will surely live; he will not die. Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are my ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

“Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign Lord.Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live! - Ezekiel 18:21-32

The first thing to remember is that, by definition, it is God who determines what is justice, what qualifies for hatred, and on what circumstances to forgive.  And in His calculus of justice, he pledges here to forget the sins of the wicked if they turn from their sins.  But whom of us can cause such change within our hearts?  The story of the Israelites is one littered with repeated cycles of wickedness with no boundaries: rape, incest, slavery, oppression, cruelty, idolatry without limits.

And yet here is the promise God himself gives only a few chapters later:

"For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees. - Ezekiel 36:24-27

God Himself pledges enable our turn from wickedness, and in Christianity, this is the basis for the Gospel, the good news that we have salvation from ourselves.

I've written more about this on a blog entry, "Bad people and Thanksgiving."  I hope this helps with your questions.

I don't like to comment on anything in a discussion that draws black-white distinctions about God from people's experiences. However, it is clear for me from the Bible that Christ, Jesus lived the prophesies that predicted where and how the messiah would live. It is also clear to me that the Bible, especially written by witnesses that were with Jesus, portrays the life of Jesus as a central message for understanding Mercy. I believe that God's Mercy is reserved for those that confess themselves as sinners, receive baptism of water, and receive the Holy Spirit. Further more, I am sure that the growth that occurs in a direct relationship thereafter with the Holy Spirit is a sacred bond. Allegedly, a person may return to wickedness thereafter if they may choose to do so. I avoid the discussions on free will. However, I am certain that anyone that lives in wickedness cannot develop a Christ conscience, cannot complete confessing of sins, and is doomed to receive God's love as though it is hate. I am equally sure that anyone that genuinely confesses being born in sinful nature--knowing full well that sin is where we originate and therefore confessing sin for all his/her life is cleansed. That repentant individual may begin from that point onward to experience mercy, grace, and love as growth until all sin is forgotten. I believe that this is the beginning in a process of being made new. NOTE: my personal beliefs are almost or perhaps completely irrelevant for any other person. However, you seem to want to know how others believe. Jesus said: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Seek what you want to know from Him. If others tell you different, be wary of their council (as you seem to know). 
Thanks Ashley for posting. It is helpful when I review my place with the Lord to know that my dear friends do so as well.
Your brother in Christ, Jesus,
Hunt

Why is it that people tell me I can't fathom or assume what God thinks and to do so is a sin, but then people speak like this about what God thinks?

This part of Xanga never ceases to be filled with brainwashed crazies. I truly hope that none of you reproduce and bring more hate from your "God" into the world. Go home Christians, you're drunk. 

Remember
that Religion is open to interpretation. Just like we hate the Muslim
fundamentalist for their extreme ways, Christianity has strong, influential
fundamentalist that behave the same way. I believe the Bible has very basic
truth, but there are over 400 versions out there and it's been jaded to provide
propaganda to the particular religious institution that it would benefit from.
Henry the VIII for example. God resides in our hearts. He is the basic love,
but he gave us free will to choose. Those people might think they are right,
but do they really feel God? Do they know what it's like to feel love and know
that it's a gift from God? Do they feel life or know what it means to be alive?

Most religious people agree that God hates sin. Over and over, the Bible stresses the fact that God despises iniquity. God told the prophet Jeremiah to speak to the Israelites about their sin, saying: “Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!” (44:4). The Proverbs writer listed seven sins the Lord hates (6:16-19). The prophet Zechariah declared that God hates a false oath and evil done to one’s neighbor (8:17). Jesus Himself said that He hated the deeds of the Nicolaitans (Revelation 2:6). The Bible emphasizes that the Lord hates sin.

Some have suggested that God takes His hatred one step further. They believe that God hates the sinner as well as the sin he or she commits. It has been suggested that God loves those who obey Him, and hates all who disobey. Those who teach this idea use various Bible verses to “prove” their case. For instance, Psalm 5:5 says that God hates “all workers of iniquity.” Proverbs 6:18-19 says that God hates “a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.” Is it true that God hates sinners and their sin?

Any person who has read the Bible understands that one of its greatest themes is love. The Bible says that God is love (1 John 4:8). It also explains that God showed His love to us while we were still sinners:

For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:6-8).

An interesting aspect of this passage is that it stresses that lost sinners were not “righteous” or “good” when Christ demonstrated His love for them.

In the narrative of the rich young ruler, Jesus explained that the young man lacked something necessary to be pleasing to God. Yet even though the young man was lacking and lost, the Bible says that Jesus “loved him” (Mark 10:21). When Jesus mourned over lost Jerusalem, He cried:

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! (Matthew 23:37).

Jesus said His affection for the lost inhabitants of Jerusalem was like a mother hen’s affection for her chicks. Such a statement obviously denotes love for the sinners in Jerusalem.

In one of the most well-known “love” verses in the Bible, Jesus said: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). God’s love for the lost world was shown before the lost believed in Jesus. John further explained this when he wrote: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). From these verses it is clear that God loves lost sinners, and proved that love by sending Jesus.

How, then, can one reconcile the verses that seem to suggest that God hates sinners, but loves them at the same time? One of the most plausible solutions is that the Bible writers are using a figure of speech called metonymy when they write that God hates sinners. Metonymy is defined as: “A figure by which one name or noun is used instead of another, to which it stands in a certain relation” (Bullinger, 1898, p. 538). Bullinger further explains that metonymy can be “of cause,” when the person acting can be put in place of the thing that is done (p. 539). For instance, in Luke 16:29, the text says: “They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.” In reality, they did not have “Moses” or the “prophets,” but they did have their writings. The name Moses is a metonymy that stood for his writings, since he was the cause of the writings. In modern times, that would be like saying, “I hate Shakespeare.” Would the person who said that mean that he hated Shakespeare’s personality? No. We understand he would be saying he does not like the writings of Shakespeare, with no comment on the playwright’s personality.

If we apply that same figure of speech to the passages about God “hating sinners,” we can see that the sinner is put in place of the sin. Thus, when God says He hates “a false witness who speaks lies” (Proverbs 6:19), if metonymy is being used, then God hates the lies, and the one who is doing the lying (the cause) is put in place of the lies (the effect). It is interesting to see how clear this feature can be in other contexts. For instance, Proverbs 6:17 says that God hates “a lying tongue.” Does that mean that God hates a physical tongue, made of muscle and body tissue? No. It means God hates the sin that a tongue can perform. In the same context, we learn that God hates “feet that are swift in running to evil” (6:18). Again, does that mean that God hates physical feet? No. It simply means that God hates the sin that those feet can perform. It is interesting that while few, if any, would suggest that God hates physical tongues or actual feet, they would insist that God hates actual sinners and not the sin done by them.

When studying the Bible, it is very important to keep in mind that the Bible writers often used figures of speech. When we look at the idea that God hates sin, but loves sinners, the figure of speech known as metonymy clears up the confusion. Just as God does not hate physical feet or tongues, He does not hate sinners. These nouns are put in the place of the things they cause—sin.