It is not their wickedness, but their "misery," not their disobedience, but their "suffering," that elicits the God of Heaven's tears.  Not until Gethsemane and Golgotha does the scriptural record reveal so unflinchingly the costly investment of God's love in His people, the price at which He placed His heart upon them.

--The God who Weeps, pg. 25

Its comforting to me to know that my sorrows can be signs that I care and not warnings that I've erred.