Why would God send people to Hell?

I've heard this question and several variants many times. God has allowed us free will to choose; however, some usually think that it'd be easier if God just told us what we needed to do. There are essentially two choices. The first is life by believing salvation through Jesus Christ, or the alternative, death and destruction by rejecting the belief that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. Then why even have a choice?

I force my daughter and myself to do things against our wills all the time; but if I didn't, I hate to imagine what our lives would be like. A simple image of the house in disarray, the bills unpaid, and school/work never making it on the list of priorities is enough of a motivator. I've intermittently tried methods that apply understandable logic, compromising patience, and the forceful "because I said so." I've since learned that it is never a good time to ask for help to clean and she could care less what my reasons are. However, what if there wasn't an option; what if there was a list of things that had to be done (no matter what) and no reason given as to why? Eventually, I would not be able to trust the process and I'd be back where we started, asking for a choice anyway. Isn't that what landed Eve in front of the tree, contemplating the beauty of the fruit, and not wanting to even try to understand why God told them the fruit was forbidden in the first place?

So then why, would God send people to Hell? "Because God said so", works for me.