God will wreck your life in order to help you enjoy real life (Micah 2:3-4). 

"Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.  In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, 'We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me!  To an apostate he allots our fields.'"

God doesn't mind bringing you to ruin when your hope rests in something besides him.  He is your greatest good (Ps 16:2) and performs a great act of love towards you when he strips you of the shirt that hides your skin from receiving the rays of his glory (Dan 4:28-37).  He performs the most beautiful act towards you when he pulls the plush carpet from underneath you and you stumble in shame and embarrassment to realize that you had placed too much hope in yourself and things. 

When he exposes your wicked idolatrous heart and eyes that lust after your neighbor's wife, then he has put you in a position to shift your trust from the confident self-realized you to the magnificent Creator of heaven and earth. 

When--sinful, fearful, shameful--you see Jesus in his misery on the cross all the way to his splendor in heaven, you have received a great mercy. 

Hell is your true reward and yet heaven is opened to you.