For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth, Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
he delighteth--or receiveth as denoting reconciliation regarding the offense which produced chastisement.
When the Lord corrects His own, He does not withdraw His love; rather, He corrects because He loves them. His discipline springs from love and never diminishes it. As a father chastens the son he delights in, so God chastens His people, and all of it issues in His glory and their good.
AI summary
Pro 3:11-12 The contrast here follows. As God should not be forgotten in days of prosperity, so one should not suffer himself to be estranged from Him by days of adversity. 11 The school of Jahve, my son, despise thou not, Nor loathe thou His correction; 12 For Jahve correcteth him whom He loveth, And that as a father his son whom he lovethVid., the original passage Job 5:17.
Commenting on Proverbs 3:11-12