For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
“Whom the Lord loves, he chastises; and he scourges every son whom he accepts.” … For, it is just that we who were dismissed from the pristine happiness of paradise because of our bold appetite for pleasures should be taken back through the humble endurance of difficulties, fugitives through our own evildoing, returning through suffering evils, there acting contrary to justice, here suffering for justice sake.