Confessor
Puritan Board Senior
What the Bible does say though is that God does hate people who perform iniquity/sin.
Although I'm not sure of this explanation, the Psalms often refer to the elect as "the righteous" and reprobates as "the wicked"; therefore I am inclined to interpret Psalm 5:5 as referring to reprobates only. But I would appreciate others' input on that.
I can not comprehend God righteously and justly maintaining His position as perfect, just, holy, and righteous while having a personal love and affection for those whom are as Christ said "Children of Satan", objects of His wrath, and are everything He is not. The reason this does not function in my mind is because God is partaking and loving something contrary to Himself because there is nothing more to the object He would be loving than everything He isn't.
There is nothing more to an unregenerate than sin. I don't see how God can love a person who is nothing more than wicked and sinful. I can understand God has done evidences of love and grace towards that person in order that He might love them to create unity, but I do not theologically understand what you are attempting to hold to.
That's what makes grace grace. God does not love us as a result of anything good in us, but only because He has freely chosen to do so. There is absolutely nothing in us that would prompt God to love us. It is His choice.