Sufferings are part of life. King or beggar! It is a part of the destiny. Both of them can love God. There is only one solution. To treat whatever comes to you as grace of God.

God who is all knowing and who is full of mercy cannot do anything wrong to anyone. Sufferings are outcome of one's own past misdeeds. Sufferings itself cannot purify heart. One can definitely say that sufferings will end one day as no such state can continue till time infinite. A day will be there when soul will experience joy as effect of good deeds of past lives.

If sufferings are coupled with remembrance of God with full realization that sufferings are outcome of God's compassion, which is there in every happening, one can take long strides in the direction of God.

Sufferings cannot make you qualify for the experience of divine bliss because purification of heart is what needed for such experience and if someone suffers without remembering God, heart never gets purified and’ therefore, one cannot have experience of divine bliss. Divine bliss is something different. The problem is all our desires are selfish because the source from which they arise is Maya. Abstinence is effective only if it is supplemented with desire to see divine vision of God. Otherwise, after some point, mind falls back on material objects in search of happiness.