How should I redirect my deleted pages?

So I have a user content generated website and sometimes I need to redirect users if I deleted content that violates our website rules.

My problem is that Google does not like redirecting and it reduces my crawl budget and rankings on Google.

How should I redirect users if the content was deleted?

I have a page with content id ...

https://www.website.com/?id=1

If 1 is not found I redirect users using <?php header('location: ./'); ?>

I am looking for a better solution. WordPress ...