What form of government did Hobbes think was best for people to live under?

Hobbes though of life as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short", and did not trust individual human nature to be perpetrators of good. Therefore, he thought the only answer was to have a strong centralized government with many rules to keep the beastly nature of man under control. He was a proponent of absolute monarchy, as he believed it would be the best system to exert the most control. See his famous work, The Leviathan for more information on his political and social views.