Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, zt"l, wrote in Michtav Mi'Eliyahu that Hashem often reveals His providence in such a way that any sensible person must realize that these events could not be coincidental. This may apply to things that we perceive as good and also as bad. Hashem may choose to show His providence by providing miracles for our enemies, c"v.
As Hashem your G-d once rejoiced over you to do good to you ... so will Hashem rejoice over you to annihilate you and to destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land which you enter therein, to possess it. (Devarim 28:63)
"Rejoicing" in this context means "going beyond all limits." When referring to good, it means loving kindness without bounds. When it refers to destruction, it means that Hashem helps our enemies without limit and does miracles for them to our detriment, c"v.
Rav Dessler also wrote that this is what we may expect in the days of "the birth-pangs of Moshiach." However, since there are people, including great men of prior faith, who refuse to recognize the Hashgacha Pratis in all of this, and fall prey to doubts and deny the existence of Divine Justice, especially in situations of extreme suffering (e.g. Holocaust, and c'v the coming reign of Bney Yishmael over Israel), several Sages of the Talmud noted their desire that they would rather not be alive at the time of "the birth-pangs of Moshiach."
If a person truly and sincerely recognizes Hashem's providence, his way of life must change radically. ... if he then makes a radical change in his actions, he will find that the direction of the miracles will immediately change from being miracles for bad to miracles for good.
If we want to know how much we have taken to heart the providential nature of the sufferings of our time, all we have to do is to see how much we have changed our behavior through living in the era of the birth-pangs of Moshiach.
-- Rav Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, zt"l, (1892 - 30 December 1953)
