Proverbs 3:12 (BSB)

for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 3:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 3:7-12: We have here before us three exhortations, each of them enforced with a good reason: - I. We must live in a humble and dutiful subjection to God and his government (Pro 3:7): "Fear the Lord, as your sovereign Lord and Master; be ruled in every thing by your religion and subject to the divine will." This must be, 1. A humble subjection: Be not wise in thy own eyes.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 3:12: For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth,.... This is a reason why the children of God should not despise corrections, nor be weary of them; since they spring from love, are given in love, nor is there any abatement of it in them: when the Lord chastens and corrects, he does not take away his lovingkindness from them; yea, it is because he loves them...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 3:12: he delighteth--or receiveth as denoting reconciliation regarding the offense which produced chastisement.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 3:11-12: 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.