3:54 And they deceived, and God deceived, and God is the best of deceivers.
Ibn ʿAbbās said, "The deception of God is that when they increased in unbelief and sin, He increased their blessings until He pulled them into total recklessness. They brought immense unbelief and applied their heads to rebellion and misguidance. Then He took them little by little from whence they did not know."
It has come in the traditions that someone tormented Abū Dardā. Abū Dardā said, "Lord God, bestow upon him a healthy body, long life, and great wealth!" An intelligent man who ponders these words will know that this is the worst of supplications. When anyone is given this, recklessness and heedlessness will make him heedless of the next world so that he will be destroyed.