There is a flagrant misrepresentation of God that has been aggressively communicated for many years in America. This presentation of God as the always happy, never angered, gleefully indulgent Papa in Heaven has produced some terrible fruit among professing Christians. God, in this false belief system about Him, is a naive enabler of wrongdoings among His children. They believe He never goes to extreme measures to correct us. Because of this, the Church is terribly polluted with sin and error that has weakened us in both our representation of Christ and our warfare against the enemy. What does the Bible actually teach about what God does when His children persist in sin? How can we recognize His correcting hand among us? How must we respond when the Father works to discipline us, and to bring us home from our waywardness? Is His correction of us actually a rejection of us? Three verses from Hosea’s prophetic book will help us discern both the heart and hand of God toward those among His children who have strayed.