He chose to leave God. God will not extinguish the “smoking flax” or the “broken reed” of a battered faith. We are a sorry lot if we depend on sinful people or what transpires in this sinful world to judge whether God is faithful to His promise, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”
you said “He chose to leave God.”
Jesus called it when he said, “You did not choose Me, but I chose you....” John 15:16