God the Father is not a human being. This should be obvious, but we as human beings tend to project our own ways of thinking onto Him, ways of thinking which are just alien to who and what He is.
Human beings hold onto offenses against them. Human beings keep count of wrongs real or imagined. God does not. Human beings have a need to forgive and be forgiven because we hold onto wrongs which are either done to us, or which we have done. Yet both the holding on to a wrong and the letting go of one is alien to Him, because He would not hold onto it to begin with. He would correct, He would discipline us with the goal of turning us around from the wrong, but holding onto that wrong because He felt it a threat or offense to Him? Why?
He is completely omnipresent throughout all of space and time, every dimension, and every universe within the multiverse. He is completely omniscient, being in full and intimate contact with every particle, wave, and motion which exists. Not one sub-atomic particle changes location and He doesn't know not only where it came from, but where it's going throughout all dimensions of space and time in every conceivable universe. He is also completely omnipotent. He need only "speak" and whole worlds are either formed or dissolved. What could possibly threaten Him? Or what would He take as such an offense that He could not let it go were the person to turn around and start heading in the way He would want him to go?
Human beings get hung up on wrongs. We do this because our brains are malfunctioning, and have been since a certain fruit was consumed by our ancestors. We get hung up on perceived wrongs against us, and we get hung up on the wrongs which we do that we just cannot let go. And because we can't let go of them, we make the gross assumption that He can't either. In Scripture, the only real condition God places on His letting go wrongs and offenses is changing our minds and hearts about our behavior and turning it around to do what He wants us and has asked us to do. After that, He always forgives freely. There are always natural consequences to actions, and those He lets us live with as a lesson learned, sometimes a hard lesson learned, but as far as the wrong committed, that is let go and done with because, in truth, He was never holding onto it to begin with. He just wanted us to change our behavior.
We torment ourselves with this. If we don't turn our behaviors around, He will allow those natural consequences to continue, as well as discipline us to push us into a change of heart and mind. Those natural consequences include a descent into a torment of madness which ultimately results from selfish action conflicting with our inability to let go of the wrongs which we commit. He would call us out of it and have us restored to sanity if we would agree to it. But we have to agree to it.
God loves. God doesn't hold onto wrongs. God wants what is best for each one of us, and what is best is to draw closer to Him through Jesus Christ and His death, burial, and resurrection, letting go of everything which impedes us from that goal.
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