I agree with Jerry. Ploughboy you have to understand that this is not one way or the other. They both go hand in hand. Romans 1 clearly talks about how God rejected those that literally did not like to retain God in their thoughts. He gave them over to a reprobate mind. Why? Because they rejected Him first.

Psa 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Psa 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

As you notice, there have been plenty of verses that some of us have been able to show you that state how God not only hates the iniquity but the worker of it. As Jerry said earlier God hates those who know what is right but choose to do otherwise. In other words someone who scorns the Truth and disregards it, living his life the way he wants to. Here is a good example.

Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.