Who would eagerly anticipate and call for God to act in judgment? You might be surprised.
When injustice is rampant in society, those who are hurting tend to identify the beneficiaries of their perceived oppression and blame everyone in that targeted group regardless of personal involvement. In Germany it was the Jews. In Mao’s China it was the wealthy landowners. In Western society it is the “patriarchy”. In the Israel of Amos’s day, it was the rich.
So then, up goes the cry for judgment: If only God would deal with this fellow over here, or that group over there, everything would be fine.