I have been praying about the same thing for years with no answer. How do I keep waiting without giving up on God entirely?

“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”

This is God's reply to a prophet who has just complained that he cries out for help and nothing changes. The answer does not deny the delay; it addresses the delay directly and gives it a horizon. Habakkuk is told to write the vision down plainly, which is what you do with something you will need to reread later. Waiting is treated as a season with an end, not a verdict.

“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”

James writes to scattered believers being exploited by wealthy landowners, with no realistic prospect of quick justice. His image for their endurance is a farmer watching a field, someone whose whole livelihood depends on a process he cannot speed up. The comparison is honest about powerlessness. What he asks for is not cheerfulness but the steadiness of someone who knows this season is not the whole year.