God does not Look at a Crooked Line? Where Did We Get that Idea?

In order to get people to straighten their lines for prayer, many imams say at the beginning of a group prayer

"إن الله لا ينظر إلى الصف الأعوج"

"God does not look at the crooked line."

People often wind up with a curved line, but they can't do anything about it. They end up being so preoccupied with the line that they can't concentrate on their prayers. They are discouraged because they feel that all this prayer will not be accepted because the line was not straight.

This saying turned out to be a something that is completely fabricated with no origin whatsoever. It is not a hadith, neither weak nor strong, according to scholars such as Ibn Baz and Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen.

But who could have made it up and what could have inclined him to make it up? More importantly, why did Muslims believe him and follow his example?

It is perhaps a religious culture that paints God as a tyrant who is hard to please and quick to reject things that are less than perfect.

It is perhaps popular weak hadiths that create a perception about God that leads Muslims to say things about Him that are not characteristic of a Compassionate and Loving Deity.