Is God Punishing Me?

When we face great suffering, we wish to know why the Lord would allow us to harm a lot. If God is nice, why are we permitted to grieve so intensely or to suffer great pain of any kind? There are Christians who falsely teach that God rewards obedience and goodness with good health, prosperity, and happiness but that he punishes us with disease, death, and despair once we will not be adequate Christians. In response to your bankruptcy or miscarriage, they could say something cruel like, “You should be doing something to upset God.” But is that this correct? Are you being punished for sin? After all, in Revelation 3:19, God confirms: “Those whom I like, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.” If I hurt, am I being punished?Photo Credit: ©Getty Images/Fizkes