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Yes because God is all powerful, and he asked us to worship him as he created us from first and he gave us this favour , so we have to obey him as we can , as a mean of thankful to him and also to get good grades as he asked and the worship will give benefit to us and others in this life , so why not doing it ? As u said you do right things as it is common sense , you have to be thankful to God who provide u with this common sense , others they dont have and have to struggle. Besides of course Allah (God ) wants us to proove what we say, we cant only say by words that we beleive in God and then we quit from our obligation to that God. Believers have to struggle more than disbeleiver to gain paradize and entering paradize needs much good work and good thinking of Allah (Good).
In addition not always common sense as you think is correct , i mean if you dont beleive in him , so he will let u to your mind and dont tell me that u r perfect and can know everything correct or not correct, only God knows , so God will help more who asked for him and who pray much to him by doing good deeds while remembering him and that is also common sense. How come God reward people whom hates him and dont obey his rules? Yes God is merciful and also can punish at the same time for bad deeds and hurting others.