Habakkuk 1:6-7
I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. (NIV)

Habakkuk was a prophet in the Old Testament. He is generally accepted as a prophet by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He posed questions to God that even today we hear over and over. Why do bad people prosper? Why do good people suffer? (Forgetting that whatever happens in this life is but a moment in time and only a sliver in eternity).

God tells Habakkuk that the people of Judah as a whole have turned from God and promoted and even celebrated things detestable to God. Since God wishes none to perish (eternally), He is sending a people more terrible than themselves; a bigger bully than the worst of them. This is not because the bully is really good; nor to save them from themselves, nor to promote their misshapen justice; nor return the people to better days.

Rather the Babylonians came to dismantle the complete workings of the system that had been far askew. This could only be rebuilt not by the Babylonians, but by the coming of the Messiah.