DIVINA COMMEDIA - DANTE ALIGHIERI

I have put off reading this one forever & I'm reading it now & while I seldom struggle to situate an author in his historical context - a lot of what I read is Old Shit -, I'm surprised by how... irritating I find Dante's passivity/tacit approval/open approval of the ruthless God he posits. Canto after canto, "Oh, here's where God put the lustful people. Suffer on, wretches, I can barely even stand to look at you!" Didn't really expect this legendary poem to elicit so many "hey, fuck you, maybe?" responses from me as it has so far

i don't know if it always reads like approval so much as resignation to me - God's plan is horrible and inexorable but what you gonna do? he's obviously not celebrating that Virgil has to go to Hell for example. there are quite a few of the damned where he feels, if not bad for them, at least not hateful. also once he starts naming names a lot of the damned are political/personal/professional enemies iirc so i think there's a degree of gleeful dark humour there.

There's some score settling, sure, but also almost everyone in hell is a notable, whose breach of a taboo bringeth misery upon the whole tribe.

He never explicitly says what happens to, say, peasants who steal bread when starving or get pregnant out of wedlock. If pressed he'd probably say something socially acceptable to the times, and thus horrible to us, but in this gap in the poem there is a tacit handwave re: ordinary people and their sins.

The version I read was the Mark Musa one. Anyone have opinions on the Dorothy Sayers version?