Asaph Calm in the Sanctuary Courtby emmanuel_higgins

Psalms 73:16

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

David's words belong to his own account of stumbling inwardly while he watched ungodly men thrive around him. The sight pressed upon him until he was drawn toward questioning God's goodness and justice. That doubting did not come because God had forsaken him, but because he himself had drifted into separation from God.