False, God doesn't need permission, that sounds crazy. Does God need permission to create something, to cause someone to be born ? You can be defiant all day !
If I can choose to be defiant all day, then so can people who are given the offer to repent.
Maybe God doesn't need permission; however, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17). And therefore, God gives the liberty (freedom to choose) as concerning whether we will receive Him, or not.
So, He operates under the paradigm that says, "I will not violate your free will and force you into the kingdom."
Otherwise, have you thought about the fact that if God forces His way on people, the people that He doesn't force His way on, He has apparently chosen them to be cast into the lake of fire?
This is not a God of love that you worship, sorry.