prevents us from receiving what perfect love brings. Discipline is not the same thing as punishment. The purpose of discipline is training. God uses discipline to bring us back into a right relationship with Him so that we can receive His love. We can see the harshness of God in the Bible, but it is harshness against the sin that destroys humanity, the object of God's love. God desires to preserve and protect the best He has for you and does not want you to miss, or lose, the best. That is the reason