For the stretch that has gone on longer than you expected
The Qur'an names hardship plainly, and it attaches a promise to the word almost every time it uses it. "So, truly, with hardship comes ease" (94:5), and the line directly after it says the same thing over again.
That repetition is doing something. Anyone far enough into a difficulty has already been told it will pass and has stopped finding that useful. The second sentence is there for exactly that person, and the promise it makes is about proximity rather than timing: the ease is bound to the hardship, sitting with it, not waiting somewhere on the far side of it.
The people the Qur'an holds up as examples are shown in the middle of it, while it is still going on. Ayyub calls out "Affliction has touched me" with no attempt to sound composed about it, and the account records the answer in the next breath. Saying the thing plainly to God is what these passages show being done, and what they show being met.
A wider frame sits behind the promise. The Qur'an describes hardship as moving through people the way seasons move, arriving and passing and arriving elsewhere. Read that way, a hard stretch tells you something about where you are in time and very little about your standing with God.
Hardship also appears here as the thing that makes people turn — the point where the polite version of belief drops away and someone actually calls out. The Qur'an reports that without reproach. The verses below sit alongside verses about patience, which is about how it gets carried, and verses about being tested, which is about what it is for.