Mark that expression in Scripture, Psalm 5:5. The fool shall not stand in Thy sight, Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. So that sin makes the creature the object of God's hatred. God does not say, mark it, that He hates the works of iniquity only, but the worker of iniquity.

God does not hate the creature as He made him, but through sin, the creature comes to be hated; even the workers of iniquity. Now observe the strength of the reason, that which makes a man the object of God's hatred must be a greater evil than that which can stand with God's everlasting love; for afflictions, though they are strong and bitter may stand with God's eternal love. Nay, observe, they may stand with the same love with which God the Father loved His Son, Jesus Christ. You can read this in John 17, the latter part. There Christ prays to the Father, "that Thou mayest love them with the very same love with which Thou lovest Me."