When we ask God to intervene we are asking him to cause something to happen or to let something happen that we believe would not have happen or may not have happened without his intervention.
Perhaps on rare occasions God does perform miracles but for the most part the existence of free will and of order in the physical universe are facts. While we might wish for such miraculous deliverance to occur more often frequent miraculous interventions would be at least as chaotic in the physical realm as they would be in interfering with human acts of free will.
On the subject of pain of human existence, If God is loving and wishes the best for us, then perhaps his plan is not the same as our plan. This a hard concept if we have been too regularly spoon-fed a version of God's benevolence that implies nothing more on his part than a desire for us to be perpetually happy.
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