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That would be the "problem of evil," which has been debated for millenia by nearly every religion, except Buddhism and the dualists.
Some popular counterarguments:
- Evil doesn't actually exist, it's just the absence of good.
- Since good and evil exist, that means that a moral law exists. Someone created that moral law, and that someone could have only been God.
- God must have a benevolent reason for allowing evil to exist, but it is beyond our comprehension.
- Evil exists in order that we have free will, which necessarily includes the freedom to do evil.
I personally think the free will counterargument is the most convincing.