Just as divine hospitality requires at least some violence to make it flourish, so also God’s love requires that he become angry when his love is violated. For God not to get angry when he is rejected by people made in his image (and redeemed in Christ) would demonstrate indifference, not love. When God steps into a world of injustice, he shows his love in particular ways. . . . Love, it seems, requires passionate anger toward anything that would endanger the relationship of love. . . . Hospitality bespeaks the very essence of God, while violence is merely one of the ways to safeguard or ensure the future of his hospitality when dealing with the humps and bumps of our lives. Divine violence, in other words, is a way in which God strives toward an eschatological situation of pure hospitality.
– Hans Boersma, Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross.