'Why does God allow suffering?'

I just often wonder how allowing for believing in a creator and that Jesus showed the people of the world how to live the type of life that creator hoped we would make of it, translates into this Omnigod who controls everything in a micromanagerial way while somehow still giving us free will.

I try to find in the Bible, a wonderful collection of ancient texts by many different authors, where it actually says that, and beyond taking words of the praise of men to a creator quite literally, I'm having trouble envisioning the creator in the way religion has interpreted it for us.