To the OP, you don't have a relationship with God just to escape hell.
That would be like bring friends with someone just because they pay the bills.
A relationship with God is so much more than this, if the only thing you are
thinking about is avoiding hell and nothing else, then it sounds as if you
dont really know God very well at all. If you did you wouldn't be asking this
question. I would worry more about that and start asking the question:-
How do I get to know God!
Matthew 7:7-8 NKJV
[7] "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it
will be opened to you. [8] For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks
finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.