Why God is punishing Christians

Many Christians do not realize it but they are being punished by God and for very good reason. It is because God loves His children. If we profess to be Christians and if we have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord then God accepts us as children and when we become a child of God, when we are accepted as a child then God deals with us as with children. He wants us to share in His holiness and therefor He will punish us when we go wrong. 
God is punishing individuals and nations who call themselves Christians because He is faithful. He wants them to REPENT, and be holy, turn away from sin, wickedness, the things of this world, and God is punishing them. He is chastising them and they don't realize it. They don't know why they have terrible sicknesses, they have natural disasters and they have economic woes. On every front God is punishing them because He cares for them. He has not just wiped them off, He is punishing them because HE WANTS THEM TO REPENT. He is speaking to Christians, to every child because He cares for us.
I read from Hebrews 12:5 He says:”And you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons: MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD nor faint when you are reproved by Him, for those whom the Lord loves, He disciplines and He scourges (He treats harshly) every son whom He receives. It is for discipline that you endure God deals with you as with sons, and what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which we all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons! Furthermore we had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them but He DISCIPLINES US FOR OUR GOOD THAT WE MAY SHARE IN HIS HOLINESS.”
If we refuse to repent, if we refuse to turn from our wicked ways then we will come under judgment and then we will perish with the unbelievers. We will go into hell, but God cares for us AND THAT IS WHY IT IS GOING SO BAD with many Christians, with Christian countries because God wants to turn them from their evil ways, unless He will come and totally destroy them. 
Do we hear His voice? Do we realize that it is the love of God that is bringing us to repentance? We must repent and then we will be approved by God. 
May Jesus bless you.