God severely disciplines His children

We live in a world that rejects discipline and correction. If a parent disciplines his child then he is arrested for felony child abuse and battery. A child cannot grow up without discipline and that is why God disciplines His children and He disciplines them severely because He wants to correct them.
It sometimes takes severe discipline for a child to change his ways and God knows how to deal with His children. We read in Hebrews 12:5-10 “Have you 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; 6 FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES. 7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 For if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 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? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.”
If you want to have eternal life and be a child of God, you must submit yourself to the discipline of God and He will get you right. He will discipline you until your behavior is changed so that you can be holy. Many believers never stop sinning, they never change their ways. They will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven because they do not SUBMIT themselves to the discipline of the Father.
In olden days the shepherds had a special way to treat a runaway sheep, one that always strayed. They would take him and break his leg and then they would fix up his leg but by the time that that leg grew back on, then that sheep would have learned not to stray because while his leg was healing he could not run away. If you accept Jesus as your Lord and God as your Father, He will discipline you and He might just break your leg because He cares for you. Many believers have "broken legs," many of them are being disciplined by God and they do not understand it. Many of them reject the discipline of God. Instead of going on their knees and say "Father what are You telling me? Why is everything in my life going wrong? They go to the doctors, they go to other people for help and they don’t learn, they don’t realize that God is disciplining them for their unholiness, for their disobedience. If you want to be a child of God, call yourself a Christian, God will discipline you. If you do not mend your ways, you will end up in hell but God is a good Father and He treats His own children severely because He disciplines them for their own good so that they can share in His holiness. Maybe God’s Hand of discipline and chastisement is on you, dear friend and you have failed to see it all along. Get on your knees, submit yourself to the Father, accept His discipline and He will change you into an obedient child.
May Jesus bless you.