Disobedience is hard to deal with. If your child or grandchild is doing something naughty, and you tell them to stop, they may just ignore you and continue. What to do then? Do you raise your voice and yell at them? Do you send them to their room? Deny them a toy or a privilege? Spank them? It’s not an easy call because you love them so much, but you can’t tolerate their defiance.
Kind of like God’s relationship with us, isn’t it? He wants us to do our best to avoid sin, but sometimes we ignore Him and make bad choices anyway. God doesn’t want to punish you. He created you and loves you like His own child, which you are. That’s why He sent a savior to clear a path for you to one day join Him. But he can’t tolerate your disobedience forever. At some point there has to be a reckoning.
And you don’t know when that point is coming.