Does Moses dare try to advise God?

Diminishing God's judgment, diminishes His grace also.  Minimizing God's wrath, minimizes what Jesus did in His great mercy and love for us.   Christ's sacrifice on the cross didn't change the Father's view of sin; it changed His view of sinners.   God values our faith and trust on a personal level; in other words, God doesn't see a lack of faith as merely a short-coming to try to work on, but a personal account of how we see Him and His goodness towards us.  Intercession in the face of God's judgment, the Church's sacred role.  God wants us to play the role of "good cop" as we stand in the gap for others.   We are God's hose to get the Living Water to our dry and dying culture.   God's wrath and God's mercy come together at the cross!