A God both all-powerful and good would not let the innocent suffer; yet the innocent suffer.

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Epicurus, Hume · Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, Part X · 1779

Theism affirms a God who is all-powerful, able to prevent every evil, and perfectly good, willing to prevent it.
Yet evil exists, and not only the kind our freedom explains: the disease that carries off a child, the catastrophe that levels a town, suffering that no visible good requires.
If he could prevent it and willed to, there would be none; there is. One of the terms must therefore go: the power, the goodness, or the very existence of this God, unless one can show why a good God would permit that evil.

Therefore So, as long as the innocent's suffering stands unjustified, it weighs as the strongest reason to doubt the all-powerful and good God.

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