so someone asked me:
"Who do bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people?"
and this is what i had to say:

"well, i hope you don't mind, but i'm gonna go all Jesus on this one.
in James 1, it says "when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy, for you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow" pretty much, what James is saying is that God puts difficult situations into our lives to test our faith in him, and that we should take those opportunities to grow. It goes on to say in verse 4: "For when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing". So just think of it this way, every time something bad happens to a good person, it's God trying to make them into a more perfect person.
now, as for good things happening to bad people, you have to think with the perspective "what makes a bad person?" is it bad choices, bad attitude, what? see, in Romans, there's a list of many different sins, and included in almost the same sentence are murder, homosexuality, and disobedience to parents. and i know that we're all guilty of the last one. so we're all "bad people" in God's eyes, but either way, he's forgiven each and every one of us. Maybe bad people were born into or raised into a bad mindset, God still forgives them and gives them a chance at happiness, because he loves every single person on the planet equally. which is pretty much like dividing infinity equally. So he certainly has enough love and forgiveness to go around.
And good things still happen to good people, and bad things still happen to bad people. It just depends on what God things they need."