 This is Word to the Wise with Dr. William Blocker, president of the College of Biblical Studies. When you hear the phrase wrath of God, do you think of hellfire and brimstone? It is that, but there's more to it. Three times Romans chapter 1 describes God's wrath as something that can happen in the present. When people choose not to honor God, he gives them over to their own desire and thinking, which leads to even greater sin and wrong thinking.