God does not set things in motion or create something and then step back to attend to other matters.  When God creates, God remains connected.  God's continued and constant presence is necessary for everything we see to exist.  Without God, life as we know it would cease.  God's imperishable spirit is in all things!  Being the author of love, God cannot despise or hate Himself.  Therefore, God cannot despise or hate anything or anyone.  How can God be repulsed by the image of Himself reflected in a human soul?  Jesus goes to the homes of sinners.  His very presence there is enough to change even the most conflicted and self-serving of hearts.  The soul who realizes its utter dependency upon God is a soul who knows salvation.  The beginnings of salvation's blessings are discovered when we understand who God is, who we are, and how we are to act relative to our brothers and sisters.  We find what our selfishness lost.