role of helper, and no longer does the man lovingly accept input. As a result of sin, God speaks a word of judgment over the woman that introduces relational difficulty between her and the one she was made to help. In Genesis 3:16 God’s judgment falls on the two things the woman was created to do. She will have pain in childbearing, and she will have a difficult relationship with the man she was made to help. Her sin has made her tasks harder, but in God’s mercy she still has those tasks. And as