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Well, if we can leave the whole question of "suffering for our sins" aside for just a moment, consider this line of thought.
Would any of us choose to go through a life of trying to help people where we knew at the end of it, the people we had been trying to help end up brutaling killing us by nailing us to a couple of 4x4s when we didn't have to?
Christians believe that is exactly what God did for us. He allowed us to kill him, not for any benefit to Himself, but for our benefit. That is why Jesus is called the "lamb who was slain". He offered himself to us and we killed him.
But instead of that being an end to His life and any hope we had of moving beyond this brutish earthly existance, it paradoxically was the ultimate hope He gave us: that there is HOPE for us in trying to live a good life, even if we end up being murdered for it.
There is HOPE that at the end of our lives, if we have lived them not for ourselves, but for each other, that we will realize that we have been serving GOD.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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