"Never shall I forget that smoke"

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever."
Elie Wiesel in his book “Night” gives us a glimpse of the evil he experienced at the concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Germany. This short excerpt from his autobiography is rendered by many as the moment in which Wiesel lost his faith. . In a radio interview Wiesel gave this statement regarding his questioning God during this period in his life. “It is permitted to question God, even to take him to task […or] suing God. I bring him to rabbinic tribunal. I take God's words and say, since You said these words, how is it possible that other things or certain things have happened?”
In essence what Wiesel has asked is a question posed by many in the Bible. "Why do the wicked prosper?" Wiesel saw wickedness at its "finest," and he asked a logical question, but flawed in its understanding. Like Habakkuk (see Habakkuk 1:3,16,17), Wiesel failed to note three principles. First, the unrighteous seemingly prosper. They are judged in God's timing. (Habakkuk 2:9,10) Secondly, we are bound within our state in time and cannot see God's full plan (see Habakkuk's insight into God's plan Habakkuk 3). God uses men to accomplish His purposes. Lastly, there is victory over the wicked in the Gospel. Christ triumphed over evil and therefore the wicked have already been condemned on all accounts (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 53:10,12: Romans 7:1-8:11).