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God gave humans free will but Satan introduced sin to them. You can think of it like him inventing sin. God said that humans' love was only really valid if they were able to choose.

Yeah it makes God kind of a self righteous dick, or something so intelligent he's closer to a finely tuned perfection machine than a human, or limited by his own lack of free will. It makes Satan a more interesting anti-hero, but Satan only has powers given to him by God, he's completely under control by God.

How hell came to be a place of pure suffering is not really well established aside from the fact that it naturally became that way from the absence of God, though several times it's implied that God set it up that way.