We are living in a manufactured hellscape right now.
There are elements you could define as being "hellish" and elements you could consider "divine".
There is no such thing as a purgatory for sinners. This concept is far too simplified. What there is, is Karma. Karma is one of the most fundamentally important forces in the universe, and is the great "balancer". Every choice you make has a karmic imprint. And it isn't something as stupid as "I stepped on a bug, I will have to manifest as a bug to pay my dues".. no, its once again, much more complex.
For example.. A soul who has committed atrocities in its past lives could manifest as a starving african child in order to balance the karmic debt it owes due to those experiences.
Or, a soul who is highly negatively polarized and desires to augment that part of itself could choose to manifest itself in to a position of wealth and power.
Or, a soul who is working on being STO has an imbalance in itself that needs to be amended, so it chooses to inject in to a place where it will face specific situations where that ailment or imbalance will be put to the test.
You have to understand that these underlying forces at work are part of "nature" itself, this is "god", if you want to call it that.. and all consciousness at all levels "follows the rules" whether they are aware of it, working directly against them, or are completely oblivious to them. This is the nature of our universe.
Our bodies were made in 4D labs off planet. We were seeded here around 309 000 years ago. They have had several "modifications" given to them, by our creators. Some of these modifications are designed to release certain chemicals under certain situations, some are designed to weaken our parapsychological ability, some of them are designed to seed "jealousy" in to us, for example.