I do not know any healthy parents who love disciplining their children. I know I am grieved each time my children choose rebellion and I have to administer correction. God is indeed slow to anger, but when He arrives there, it is awful. Because of their detestable practices and abominations, God would do to Israel what He had never done before and would never do again. He would consume a third of His people by plague and by famine.
Ezekiel 5:7–11