Arrogance should be punished, so that people who don't know any better can learn a lesson. If you are wise, you will learn when you are corrected.

Children just naturally do silly, careless things, but a good spanking will teach them how to behave.

But Israel's sins will be forgiven only when the stones of pagan altars are ground up like chalk, and no more incense altars or symbols of the goddess Asherah are left.

Our human fathers punished us for a short time, as it seemed right to them; but God does it for our own good, so that we may share his holiness.