Mitchell, you are completely dismissing death as a consequence. Death is indeed a consequence. And a just one. Eternal torment is not a just consequence for anything. The only way I could want someone to be tormented at all is if it could make them grow in a positive way and if there was no other way to make that growth happen. Otherwise, wanting someone to be tormented is taking pleasures in their suffering.
You seem to be avoiding this issue: If God has created hell as a place of eternal torment from which there is no escape then this is what he wants. That means he wants those who reject him to be tormented eternally. That means he takes pleasures in that. What other explanation is there when he can destroy their souls?
That is a monster I cannot believe in, and that I see no signs of anywhere in the Bible. That is a monster incapable of saying about those who have rejected him, who have scourged and are murdering his being incarnate in the form of Jesus, “Forgive them… for they know not what they do.”