No, it's not an accusation by a skeptic or atheist. It's from an essay by James Walters, who wonders if God sometimes "tricks" people into doing something for one reason, only to later reveal that He has an entirely different purpose in mind. Walters describes a bewildering experience from his own ministry:

From the perspective of hindsight, the whole thing is almost comical. We moved cross-country in order to begin a new worship service, waited nearly three years to do that, only to realize that in the end it wasn't really what we wanted to do after all....

As I reflect more on my own story and listen to those of others, it seems to me that God does this a lot: from our perspective, he "tricks" us into doing something or going somewhere under the guise of some project or relationship, and then when we get there we find he has much deeper purposes than said project or relationship.

In support of this idea, he points to an obscure verse in Hosea.

Usually when Christians experience disappointment or run into closed doors like this, we chalk it up to having misunderstood God's call in the first place—the fault lies with us, and not with God. But have you ever felt that God "deceived" you in some sense, prompting you to follow a certain path only to later reveal that he had something else in mind? Was it a humbling and inspiring experience, or a frustrating and bitter one?