For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
"Sermon 18:2. On the Verse of the Psalm: God Will Come Openly". "Works of Saint Augustine, A translation for the 21st Century: Part III - Sermons, Volume I". Book by Edmund Hill, translation and notes by John E. Rotelle, p. 374, 1990.