When the people cry out to save them in the book of Exodus, we are told "God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew." That is all comforting that God hears and sees, remembers and knows.
The problem is that He didn't answer their prayers in the way they wanted Him to, at least not initially or for a very long time. When He appears to Moses in the burning bush God repeats all these same verbs to Moses and says I have come down to deliver the people and then, "Come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." Why doesn't He just do it Himself? Why get a guy like Moses, who doesn't want to go anyway, involved in all this?
I know a bit about how Moses felt. The heroes of the Bible all heard God say, "Where are you?" and responded, "Here am I." Moses responded to God in the same way. The whole excitement of talking with God more or less went away when God told Moses what his marching orders were though. I am sure Moses was excited that God planned to deliver the people, Moses himself had heard and seen some things that prompted him to try and get involved forty years earlier and that didn't work out too well. He was understandably reluctant to try again.
It is one thing to know that God hears and sees us and knows our sufferings. It is often quite another thing to accept His solutions.
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