5 Do not forget [RHQ] these words that Solomon spoke to his son, that are the same as God would exhort you as his children:

My child, pay attention [LIT] when the Lord is disciplining you,

and do not be discouraged when the Lord punishes you [DOU],

6 because it is everyone whom he loves whom the Lord disciplines,

and he punishes everyone whom he accepts as his child.

7 It is in order that God may discipline you that he requires you to endure the disagreeable things that happen to you. When God disciplines you he is treating you as a father treats his children. All fathers [RHQ] discipline their children [LIT]. 8 So, if you have not experienced God disciplining you just like he disciplines all his other children, you are not true children of God [MET]. You are like illegitimate children; no father disciplines them. 9 Furthermore, our natural fathers disciplined us when we were young, and we respected them for doing that. So we should certainly more readily accept God our spiritual Father disciplining us, with the result that we live eternally [RHQ]!