Romans 2:4

Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?

(v4, NIV)

The way in which hypocrites live, it shows that they care nothing for God's kindness, tolerance and patience. Do you realize and understand the riches of his kindness? There are two ways in which God responds to sin, he responds with judgment and he responds with kindness. His kindness and long suffering is shown in the fact that we are still alive. He is patient with us. The moment we first sinned we should have paid for it with our lives. Instead, God is patient with us. He postpones judgment upon us.

So why is God patient with us? Why does he postpone his judgment upon us until a later time? Why are we allowed to continue on living and sinning against him? This is his kindness upon us in order to lead us to repentance. If we were killed, there wouldn't be an opportunity to repent and turn from our sins. But we're allowed to live and God gives us this opportunity. He wishes us to turn from our sins and turn to him. His kindness is meant to lead us to repentance. God is just and so he will render his justice properly. However, he is also kind, showing his kindness to lead us to repentance.