Leon Morris, The Atonement:
We cannot get a glimmering of an understanding of what the New Testament understands by Christ’s atoning work unless we see that God is hostile to every evil thing and every evil person.…It is only when [this] root cause is identified and dealt with that there can be a genuine reconciliation. Without that it is possible to have no more than an uneasy, patched-up truce. But not peace, not a reconciliation.
Words of Grace 