I think the root of the problem is laziness and the desire to be coddled.
When I grew up, I was expected to start pulling my own weight at age four. By age seven, I was treated like a man and expected to do a mans work.
Kids today do no chores, very few get a job unless forced to, they all can't wait for their parents to die and leave an inheritance. They expect the government or another group to take care of them. And even then, all they do is whine.
So when faced with the honest hard truth of God or the easy lies of the Devil, these back bone-less babies choose the Devil. I wonder how many will realize the fallacy of their ways and come running to Jesus on their deathbeds, only to find Him pointing and laughing.
This may well be one of the few times He can laugh, for prior to this He was weeping.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.