Temptation of the innocent. (Matthew 18:5-7)

Pardon the slightly down near the end. Kinda hard to find a happy way to say that, "GOD sets it right. So you're either right with HIM or toast." It's in the text, don't even really have to touch on a ton of verses, it's clear here. "Better to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone around your neck." That's a hell of an image. Gasping for air as the life is drained from your both with each trying struggle of needing to breath and knowing if you do you die, assuming the pressure doesn't finish you off.
That should provoke a o.O face at least, I know it did for me. GOD Is Love, don't get me wrong. HE also knows this world needs to be set right. And if we aren't covered by the blood of the lamb, well won't go well. I can promise you that. Then again as I read more and more of the Revelation, I find myself wondering if hell as far as we read it is more akin to being left in the hell of our own making, and choosing, until we are wiped from time and space. Erased into oblivion. Got to tell you, this is one of those I really really really hope my reading is in error and it's just Dante-esk fire and suffering. Because the verse is rather brutal, so is what follows tomorrow. We are getting to the rougher stuff here, stuff where we get to pick between HIS way or not. The wages of sin are death. Don't believe me? See the world around you, when people choose what is right in their own eyes over other centric love, is it ever anything but bodies and pain in the end? Does "For the greater good" or "Just following orders" ever end well? We all know there are many other expressions like this that all end the same way. So why not choose love? Why not choose the child-like faith and trust, knowing our GOD is indeed greater.