5 You have forgotten the encouragement that is addressed to you as sons: "My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's disciplineor give up when you are corrected by him.

6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,and he punishes every son he accepts."

7 What you endure is for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?

8 Now if you are without any discipline, in which all sons share, then you are illegitimate and not his sons.

9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers who used to discipline us, and we respected them for it. We should even more submit to the Father of our spirits and live, shouldn't we?