Peace brother, thanks for bringing up your question.

I will attempt to give my view of what hell is in Islam. Let me first correct you by saying that Allah is not a person, He is God, He is unlike anything that we've ever seen/known. To put it briefly, those who did not believed and worshipped Allah alone and did not follow the teachings and virtues that He put forth in the Quran are going to hell. Allah is most forgiving and most merciful. If we sin and repent sincerely to Him then He will forgive us. I believe, that any punishment from sin in this world is due to the disobedience of the laws of nature that Allah created.

I, myself, can never say a person is going to heaven or hell but I can say that they are on the path to such destination. Allah is the the most just of all and He will decide who will go where on the Day of Judgement.

And Allah knows best...

Peace.