Ahh, Peaceful Fruit

Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners,
so that you may
not grow weary or lose heart. In your struggle against sin you have not
yet resisted to
the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten the
exhortation that
addresses you as children
'My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
or lose heart when you are punished by him;
for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves,
and chastises every child whom he accepts.'
Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as
children; for what child
is there whom a parent does not discipline? If you do not have that
discipline in which
all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.
Moreover, we had
human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be
even more
willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they
disciplined us for a short
time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in
order that we may
share his holiness. Now, discipline always seems painful rather than
pleasant at the
time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those
who have been
trained by it.