Finally, consider his appearance in the form of Jesus. While the Jews are expecting a warrior king savior to come and set the world right with power and might, instead we get God in the form of a helpless mewling baby born to an ignorant unwed teenage mother in a pig trough. He grows up presumably suffering all the potential for evil that jason_el is talking about, and finally submitting to that evil to die a painful nasty death as his organs shut down one by one hanging there in horrible pain while nailed to a board. Jesus might as well be the kid that jason was referring to.
There is something timelessly profound in Jesus' helplessness and here is where we have to look for understanding of God's attitude towards suffering and evil, and the use (or lack of use) of his divine power to prevent it.
During Jesus' life, he does a few cheesy miracles that are not much more than parlor tricks if you consider that he is The Creator incarnate. Since he foresees all of what is going to happen, and he chooses to do the Jesus thing voluntarily, it is a clear and resounding signal that although God has created the universe, he is voluntarily self-limiting his influence on it physically. The Greek term for it is Kenosis. Rather than smiting enemies and righting the wrongs of Roman political oppression, curing all diseases for ever, ending all hunger, instead he starts a viral marketing campaign to prepare mankind to be his hands and feet in the name of love then he lets mankind string him up for it.
Again, there is something important here. It's as if God is saying, "hey, do you want to know what I think about the universe's natural processes, scary as they might be? Well, let me demonstrate to you my high regard by emptying out all of my power and submitting myself to it at its complete worst. Let me become human like you, let me suffer like you, let me die horribly like you could possibly do. Why? Because I love the universe and I love life, and I love you, more than you could possibly imagine. I know you won't believe me, so let me demonstrate my regard for it by submitting to it. I can't explain it to you, so I will sacrifice myself to it as a demonstration. Furthermore, know now that I am a God that suffers as each creature in his creation suffers. Also know, that in the end, as I rose from the dead, that in conquering death, I am saying that there is no more pure evil. Everything bad has the potential for good. Suffering may be a part of it, but accept my promise that there is a point where it all ends and there are "no more tears... and the lion shall lie down with the lamb..." (Revelation)."
This is a much better answer than God gives Job, when Job is lying in the mud with his skin falling off, echoing jason_el's words, demanding what kind of a God would allow a universe where such suffering was possible. Like his answer to Job, and like the example of his life in the form of Jesus, he is trying to say that you won't ever understand it, but this world is so astonishing wonderful in God's eyes that any alternative form of it would be pointless. Any meaningful world in terms of human life, anyway, must have the potential for contigency. That naturally leaves open the potential for suffering, but only because you can't have any kind of life without the capacity for some form of choice, some amount of free-will, etc.