2 Peter 3:9

Time is a tool that God uses not only to grow flowers etc. but to show His mercy in allowing people to come to repentance and find their eternal home with Him. We are much less merciful and want to see our vengeance exacted WHEN an infraction happens. It’s a good thing we are not God.

J.B Philllips paraphrased it this was:

But you should never lose sight of this fact, dear friends, that time is not the same with the Lord as it is with us—to him a day may be a thousand years, and a thousand years only a day. It is not that he is dilatory about keeping his own promise as some men seem to think; the fact is that he is very patient towards you. He has no wish that any man should be destroyed. He wishes that all men should come to repent. Yet it remains true that the day of the Lord will come as suddenly and unexpectedly as a thief. In that day the heavens will disappear in a terrific tearing blast, the very elements will disintegrate in heat and the earth and all that is in it will be burnt up to nothing.