If you were the all-powerful Creator of everything, I'm pretty sure lots of people would fear you even if you didn't make a covenant with them like the one that the Israelites had with God. And do you think that God enjoys punishing His people? That is not so: "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? -Ezekiel 18:23". "How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. -Matthew 18:12-14"