God draws men unto himself when the Son is lifted up (John 12:32). There is a 'drawing influence' through the goodness of God (Rom 2:4) that brings the lost soul to that place of repentance where they can be found. God is not willing that any man remain lost and perish, but that all men might come to that place of repentance and believe upon the Son.
SeaBass, when the gospel is heard by any soul who is lost, that is God drawing them to his Son. They may not respond or believe at that point, but God is drawing them. They may come under tremendous conviction and that is God drawing them. They might have a hundred questions about what is happening to them in this life and remain in unbelief and cry out to God and He hears them (Rom 10:13, Psalm 145:17-19). When God hears their cry he answers and does so swiftly (Is 58:8-14). God is after the heart. There is none righteous, none that understands, none that doeth good or seeketh after God (Rom 3:10-12) until God goes after the heart.
When the heart is pricked by the goodness of God, many are called but few humble themselves in the sight of God in the midst of that calling and get saved. God may come back a second and third time and go after their heart again to bring them to that place of repentance, but they may reject that calling over and over even though God is not willing and never has been willing that they should perish. Some respond to that calling and believe in their heart unto righteousness and others continue in what is righteousness and seems right in their own eyes and they are responsible for what they believe in their heart.
1 Thes 5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Phil 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Here is the other side of God's justice when men refuse the goodness of God's counsel.
Prov 1:22-33
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
