Why Do Bad People Have It So Good? Jeremiah's Question

Jeremiah has been labeled "the weeping prophet".
Called at a very young age as a divine prophet of the Lord,
Jeremiah would suffer being placed in stocks, be threatened
for prophesying, be oppressed by Hananiah, imprisoned, thrown
into a cistern and forced to Egypt in flight from Babylon among
other things.
Is it any wonder Jeremiah wept? Jeremiah had something,
a lot of something to weep about.
However, in Jeremiah 12:1,2, we find him asking God a question.
Jeremiah wants to know, why does it appear that the bad guys are winning?
Read...

You are always righteous, O GOD, when I bring a case before You.
Yet I would speak to You about Your justice:
But I do have some questions:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the faithless live at ease?

You have planted them and they have taken roots.
They grow and bear fruit.
You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.
Yet, You know me, O Lord;
You see me and test my thoughts about You.
Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!
Set them apart for the day of slaughter!
How long will the land lie parched and the grass
in every field be withered?
Because those who live in it are wicked, the
animals and birds have perished.
Moreover, the people are saying, "He will
not see what happens to us."
Jeremiah 12:1,2