Cranky Discipline

“Related to this, a wise father rejoices in the fruit of his discipline. This is why many ‘disciplinarians’ are not disciplinarians in the biblical sense at all. They discipline because they are annoyed or irritated; they are almost impossible to please and they go through life like a crate of crankcase oil. But a ‘wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother’ (Prov. 10:1; cf. 15:20)” (Future Men, p. 28).