God doesn't do small talk.
He doesn't get around to the deep subjects eventually and He doesn't skirt around difficult issues. God always goes after the heart.
Sometimes it doesn't seem like this, like when He asked Adam where He was in the garden. "Adam, where are you?" (As though He didn't already know...) But in the heart of that question, He was holding a mirror to the deepest inclination of the natural man: to hide.