We can't speak of God's wrath: that would be attributing an all too human trait to God. We can, however, speak of a experience of life that includes the perception of wrathful forces unleashed upon us. Such experience is part of what it means to be human.
If, then, we take the experience seriously as part of who we are, and if we take life seriously as a gift from God in its entirety, then it is understandable how we would arrive at the conclusion that what we perceive as a wrathful force originates, ultimately, in God. It does: but that does not mean that it is an attribute of God, nor even that our perception of it is accurate.
If our perception is that God is angry with us, we need to rethink our relation to God indeed: not to appease God but to correct our view of Him. To cleanse the doors of our perception so that the light may come in.
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