My Theology teacher as well as my Ethics teacher, now both dead,  taught me otherwise. But at age 73 I am inclined to believe Rabbi Darfour Brickner who wrote :

“God does not do or bring justice to the world. God is an ideal, the representation of perfect justice.”

“The burden of making justice work is placed on us, not on divinity.”

“When and if we do things that make for more justice in society, we are bringing God into the world.”

“Praying in a way that makes us conscious of our responsibilities to a world that needs justice can be very helpful to us. It eliminates our having to blame God for our failure or to accuse God of impotence when justice is denied or improperly executed.”

“God, then, is the power that helps us bring justice into the world as we conceive that ideal and work to bring it into our lives.”

“God seen in this way is a power or a face that inspires, not a person who acts on oue specific issues.”

God Is.

We Do.