How Does Homer Present The Gods In The Iliad

In the Iliad, Homer mentions the Gods intervening with the mortals throughout the whole book. The gods are often used to show comic release throughout the seriousness of the war. But throughout the book, it seems that Homer portrays the gods to have more human like qualities than godly qualities.
Throughout the book, Homer likes to portray the gods with mortal-human like qualities. The gods act very human like when they choose sides between the Greeks and Trojans; they fight among each other like mortals especially when they bicker back and forth. The gods like to have complete control over the war as they try to keep main warriors alive by healing them and sending messages into their head. One example is in book four when Athena inspires Pandarus to shoot Menelaus with his bow and arrow. Although Athena never wanted to actually kill Menelaus, she ends up protecting him from the arrow. Menelaus does get injured in the abdomen but will slowly recover. As you can conclude the gods like to interfere with the war and appear to act very human like.
It is like the gods use the mortals like a chess piece on the chessboard. An example would be in the early stages of the book when Aphrodite pulls Paris into a fog and saves him from Menelaus before he dies. Or, when the war to win Helena goes on, the gods show their human-like qualities as they make jokes and bet on who will win thinking nothing of the people's lives. Another example is in chapter seven when the gods give both sides of the war a day off. After giving them a day off Zeus notices that the Greeks are fortifying their walls and doing military activities while they should be taking a day of rest. For punishment for not taking the day off, Zeus decides to flood out all the work that the Greeks had done so that the day was