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The psalmist (most often David) liked to celebrate God's awesomeness and his faithfulness. Sometimes, he lamented his distance. In Psalm 30 he does both.... kind of. 

This is an example of a form of ancient poetry called parallelism. There are different forms of parallelism. One form is to present a line (or a couplet of two lines) that say one thing, then another line (or two) that repeat the same idea but expressed differently. Or the second part may contrast with the first. And so on and so forth for the rest of the poem or psalm.

In Psalm 30, as is the case in many other psalms, the writer contrasts the joy of seeing God protecting, teaching and blessing him, while in the alternate lines or verses, he shows the opposite... Clearly he's seen the downsides of life and he's not afraid to say so. In part, because the downsides are often what makes the upsides worth celebrating as he does here.  

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