You might be right that its not. Im really sure that at in Judaism its not an issue. I think the problem arise when Christianity, or the bible say that God is only good, which natural make you wonder about evil and where or why that is allowed. And maybe they had other explanations for it back in days, that are unknown to us or maybe they simply didn't thought about it, and that evil was self inflicted, therefore God was just when he punished people. You have verses or laws in the bible, where God say that its people's own fault.
But pain and suffering can be connected to evil, so if we look at natural evil, like a Tsunami, then its not because it, it self is evil. But rather that it is allowed to happen in the first place and why God doesn't stop it, as it can cause a lot of suffering.
I could say a lot about this from all three abrahamic positions, it's a truly important topic.
Pretty much all traditional religions teach forms of detachment though, which is important to keep in mind.
One thing worth pondering over, when it comes to Judaism/Christianity, is the
Book of Job. What do you think the ultimate message of that book is?
I generally think people don't give it enough thought, same with
Ecclesiastes too.
What I do wonder, is for those that get so distraught about suffering and evil, what about it's opposite? I think there is a tendency to favor suffering and evil over pleasure and happiness, because one is routed in pressure and struggle on the Ego whereas the other one strokes the Ego and can allow for taking it for granted. It's obvious that suffering bothers one's conscience, whereas happiness doesn't.
Generally people don't take suffering for granted, if you catch my drift. They instead let suffering define themselves, gives them a form of identity. Yet happiness and wellbeing, "peace", looses it's thought and attention because it lifts the weight off the Ego.
Y'know, why aren't you troubled when you're happy? doesn't make sense right?
Essentially though, Evil is a product of dualism, which is consequent of materiality. This life is to get from point A to point C, evil has no reality outside of this life. The highest forms of Good are what bridges between the material and the transcendent, hence how these virtues are applied to God. But God itself transcends such qualities, which is worth keeping in mind. God is not a person, or entity, so it's best not to think of any of this as a guy in a control desk flicking switches.
When it comes to Christianity, I think Jesus' crucifixion is a powerful testament to the life/death paradigm. Basically it's a massive middle finger to that cycle and a reminder of what this life is really like. However the 21st century itself is gradually getting more self-aware of stuff, which is promising. Christianity has been appallingly bastardized over the past few centuries, unfortunately. It's become it's polar opposite, when it used to be a very philosophical yet fearless religion. It still had moments of stupidity and tribalness but in general it wasn't a kind of "cup of tea unicorn happy smiling Jesus" freakshow.
All three Abrahamic religions, in their most genuine forms, know how bad this world can be, know how evil and violent it can be, and does not cower away from that or fall into laziness. Christianity has been trivialized, Judaism has been conspiratorialized and Islam has been fed to fearmongerers.
Anyway, suffering, evil, these things are really to be contemplated heavily. Eventually a light-bulb moment happens with it, perhaps in meditation, perhaps helping out a homeless shelter, perhaps praying, perhaps being caught in a bank robbery, perhaps having sex.
This question itself though can also be contemplated outside of a religious perspective too, which also leads to a lot of interesting potential answers. (as long as you don't contradict yourself and say that good/evil is objectively relative etc) Perhaps maybe even a good place to start without a starting place of blaming it on God, then after things have been thought out, then add God into the equation etc.