"Look on my suffering ...". When God met Moses in the burning bush He said that He had heard the cry of His people. David here calls on God to defend and redeem him. He calls on God to save him because he has not forgotten God's law, and according to God's promise.
Has God forgotten His promises? Of course not, yet we all go through times when it seems as though He has. So why does God put us through these times? Well I don't have any any all-encompassing answer, but one of the purposes is to deepen our faith. See here that the effect on David is to make him cling all the more tightly to God's word and promises. It is the word of God that brings life. Yet having rebelled against God we held on to all sorts of other things, trusting in various things. We need to be weaned off these things, and difficult times are one of the ways that God does this in our lives. So if we are going through a trial at the moment we need to cling all the more to God's word, to depend even more on Him.
As we sense that our soul is turning more and more to God then we should rejoice. For God's word is eternal, outlasting everything.
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