I hope this study helps you see more clearly God’s heart, especially in the tough or the frustrating times of life. It’s true that God does punish us when we’re living in sin and we’ve ignored repeated opportunities to change, but God is not an angry old man sitting in heaven waiting on the slightest opportunity to lower the boom on us when we sin. God is a loving father who shapes us and molds us to be like Jesus. That is what God is really like.