Bible Verses About Reproof: God gives reproof to his own children

I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;

Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.

I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not?