He says to himself, "God has forgotten;The evildoer may or may not acknowledge God's existence. If he does, he may or may not acknowledge God's power. If he does, then he's denying God's omniscience. He thinks that God is limited in some way, that He can't see the evil that's being done, or He'd surely do something. Therefore, since He hasn't done something, it means He can't.
He has hidden His face; He will never see it."
This is, of course, wrong. He does see everything, and knows everything. The fact that evil even exists is a sign of how much God loves us. He is willing to let us do wrong, because the alternatives are to either destroy us, or to force us to do right. If He destroyed us, we could no longer have any knowledge of Him. If he forced us, we would no longer have the ability to choose to love Him. So He lets us go on our way, even though it hurts Him.
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