Intentional Malicious Intent

Have you ever encountered someone that intentionally starts arguments and intentionally tries to get your attention through arguments? I'm not talking about the antics of children, but adults. Those people that go out of the way to try and get your attention through malicious words, immature words and just down right bitterness spoken, as if they are simply trying to inflict their own misery upon you. Well, our world is filled with them.
 
So what do you do when that person is a spouse, a relative or a close friend? What do you do when as the seasons have passed that person continues to inflict such emotions upon and against you?
 
Pray and pray and pray that God delivers them from their own torment. Because torment has it's grip upon them.