Judgement comes as a result of a Nation’s Actions
God is patient, not wanting to bring judgement
He made His chosen people, Israel, wait 400 years before He gave them the promised land because the those nations who were living there had not reached the point of no return in their iniquity where repentance was possible and judgement was the only option:
16 In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”[Lit Amorites is not yet complete]
Genesis 15:16 CSB
He gives warning of judgement
1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it because their evil has come up before me.”
Jonah 1:1-2 CSB
6 When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 Then he issued a decree in Nineveh:
Jonah 3:6-4:2 CSB
By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water. 8 Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from his wrongdoing.[b] 9 Who knows? God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.
10 God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.
4 Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious. 2 He prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and one who relents from sending disaster.
A nation’s evil conduct brings judgment
11 Since Gilead is full of evil,
Hosea 12:11 CSB
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like piles of rocks
on the furrows of a field.