I read the news and I cannot square any of it with a good God. How do people keep believing he is good when the world looks like this?

“That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Abraham is standing on a ridge above Sodom, bargaining with God over whether a city will be destroyed with righteous people still inside it. He puts the moral question to God directly and keeps pressing it down from fifty people to ten. Scripture opens the argument about God's justice this early and lets a human being run it. The question you are asking is an old and permitted one.

“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

Paul writes to Christians in Rome living under an empire that killed people for entertainment, and he does not describe the world as basically fine. He reaches for the image of labor: the whole created order groaning, believers groaning along with it. That is a diagnosis of something genuinely wrong, held together with the claim that the pain is going somewhere rather than nowhere.