Listen to the Rain

I don't tend to think that G-d is personally responsible for everything, so that's a big weight off the problem.

I have a very ideosyncratic view, where I tend to conform to a much more ancient understanding of Judaism where I take all the references of other gods in the Torah as literal--other gods exist, and belong to other peoples, but their worship is forbidden to us. So there's plenty of other sources for suffering.

Another reason is that the idea that the universe was created out of "nothing" isn't set in stone. In the Hebrew phrase תוהו ובוהו tohu wa bohu, often translated as "without form and void," "tohu" can mean "emptiness," but it can also mean "wasteland" (and "bohu" itself, we don't know what it means). The word תהום tehum, "the deep," definitely refers to the idea of an abyss, or primordial waters, and is cognate with the Babylonian word "Tiamat." In Kabbalah, the קליפות qlippot are the remnants of the first creation which fell apart. All of which is to say that there's a bit of primordial chaos remaining in the world and which is essential to the world's nature and function.

Does that make sense?