[Kudos (agreement and applause) to sshoi for his comment about pointing fingers. God uses the bible to point His finger at all of us, Christians too. I just have to accept it and grow. God loves by pointing the finger at us.
Look at these passages on His discipline and learn. He is speaking to all of us. Notice many are early in the Old Testament when some like to say the religion of Yahweh is a different religion than today (like He was full of wrath, not as loving). These prove they are wrong.]
Deuteronomy 8:2-5
You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
Psalms 50:16-21
But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to tell of My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?
“For you hate discipline,
And you cast My words behind you.
“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
And you associate with adulterers.
“You let your mouth loose in evil
And your tongue frames deceit.
“You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.
“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.
Proverbs 3:11-12
My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord
Or loathe His reproof,
For whom the Lord loves He reproves,
Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
But he who hates reproof is stupid.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son accepts his father’s discipline,
But a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
1 Corinthians 11:31-32
But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
Hebrews 12:7-11
It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather 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, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
Revelation 3:19
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
[Wouldn't it be great to say . . .]
Psalms 84:10
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
KNT
Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own ~ H. Jackson Brown