Think about this one. God does not “punish” His children. He corrects them.
What does that show us about God’s love?
How should that help us as mothers and fathers?
This is from Bruce Ray’s excellent book Withhold not Correction:
God’s discipline is corrective and not merely punitive in nature. Look at verse 12 and 13 of Hebrews 12. “Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.” God administers discipline not to inflict punishment upon His children, but in order to keep limbs that are lame from being put out of joint and to see them healed. Now to be sure, God’s righteousness demands that He punish sin. This He will do on that great dark day of judgment when His anger will grow hot, His mercy will be covered, and He will cast both body and soul into hell. That is punishment. But with respect to His children, God’s purpose is always corrective. It is not retribution or vengeance. He is not afflicting them in order to punish them for the sins which they have committed. He is afflicting them with a view toward correction, toward bringing their feet back to center, toward bringing them to walk that straight and narrow path again.