God is good?

I always like the speculations about what sort of personality God is, or for the non-believers, what do all of these God of Abraham worshippers believe to be the personality of the God they profess to love and follow. I was reading Isaiah 48 recently and liked how snarky God came off:

I foretold the former things long ago,

    my mouth announced them and I made them known;

    then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

4 For I knew how stubborn you were;

    your neck muscles were iron,

    your forehead was bronze.

5 Therefore I told you these things long ago;

    before they happened I announced them to you

so that you could not say,

    ‘My images brought them about;

    my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’

6 You have heard these things; look at them all.

    Will you not admit them?

“From now on I will tell you of new things,

    of hidden things unknown to you.

7 They are created now, and not long ago;

    you have not heard of them before today.

So you cannot say,

    ‘Yes, I knew of them.’

8 You have neither heard nor understood;

    from of old your ears have not been open.

Well do I know how treacherous you are;

    you were called a rebel from birth.

9 For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath;

    for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,

    so as not to destroy you completely.

10 See, I have refined you, though not as silver;

    I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this.

    How can I let myself be defamed?

    I will not yield my glory to another.

Basically, the only reason God told you all of these things were going to happen is so he could get the glory -- so you wouldn't say, that wasn't you God, that was my graven image that did those things. And the only reason that God is not destroying us completely is for his own sake, not for ours. 

I also like people to acknowledge my power, will set up elaborate schemes to demonstrate my power, and then will sometimes show mercy to people, for no other reason than because it gives me glory to still have them under my power than to be completely destroyed