Parents Who Don’t Spank Effectively Hate Their Children

If you do not discipline your children effectively, you hate them. If you do not discipline them in accordance with God’s Word, I do not care what your emotional framework is—you are not loving them. […] the Bible says that if you do not discipline your kids, it is functionally disowning them—and that includes disowning them by doing nothing more than whumphing the diapers.

I’d like to add one more thing to this third principle for discipline: keep calm and spank anyway. […] In Proverbs 23:13–14 it says, “Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with a rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.” […] If you refuse, then you are failing to head your child off as he is headed for destruction.