Raising children in the ways of the Lord involves guiding and correcting them to help them develop into wise and godly adults. The book of Proverbs offers numerous wisdom-filled instructions on this topic, including the importance of not withholding discipline when necessary, as seen in Proverbs 13:24 and 23:13-14. According to Proverbs 22:6 and 29:17, training and discipline are essential for a child's spiritual and moral development. The author of Hebrews also notes that discipline, though painful at the time, ultimately yields a harvest of righteousness and peace, as expressed in Hebrews 12:11.
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He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.
No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.
Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will bring delight to your soul.
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined, his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown, and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.