Is god cruel when we are in difficulty?

Sri Krishna and Arjuna were guests of a widow. The widow had no children, nobody expect for a cow, which was only means of her support.

She was a great devotee of Sri Krishna. When Sri Krishna and Arjuna went to visit her in disguise, incognito, she was so happy to see these two divine guests. She fed them with whatever she had in her house. Sri Krishna was extremely pleased with her surrendering attitude and her devotion.

On their way back, Arjuna said to Krishna, “You were so pleased with her. Why didn’t
you grant her a boon?

Sri Krishna said - “I have already granted her the boon that her cow must die tomorrow

“What? Her only means of support? She has only the cow, and nothing else.asked Arjuna. "Without the cow how can she live on earth?”

Krishna answered, “You don’t understand me. She always thinks of the cow. The cow has to be fed, has to milked, has to be bathed and so forth. This has become an hinderance to her to worship me. She want only to think of me, but this cow is an obstruction and when the cow is gone, she will think of me all the time, twenty-four hours.

Then soon the time will be right for me to take her away from this world, and after a few years I will give her a better and more fulfilling incarnation. When she has nobody on earth, not even the cow, she will try and spend all her time, day and night, in devoting herself to me. Otherwise, this way she will linger on earth and constantly think of the cow and not of me.” So Sri Krishna’s ways are inscrutable

Sometimes when we are in difficulties we feel God is not favouring us, but the Grace of God acts in a very peculiar way which you are unaware of.

God is always helping you but you donot how He is helping you.