There are plenty of fables where he punished after the fact or made corrections after an event. But other than the Tower of Babel when he prevented mankind from ever working together in harmony, did he ever take action in the stories to prevent anything?

Not books or chapters or anything like that, but stories. For instance, Genesis has a number of stories (Creation, Flood, Tower of Babel), but Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John largely repeat the same stories with some variations. So how many different Bible stories are there? I’d think one of those Christians who claims they have