His examples of discipline, provision, love and care are found all throughout His Word. Awhile back, while sitting in church listening to a sermon, we were being reminded of how God was angered by the disobedience of the Israelites and how He had them wander in the desert for 40 years as a result. It dawned on me during that sermon that God loved and cared for them all during that 40 years. This included those who were disobedient in heart and failed to trust in what He told them. They had to stay outside of the Promised Land until all who had been disobedient were died off. However, He took care of them during that 40 year punishment! He lead them by pillars of cloud and fire. He gave manna, meat, turned bitter water to sweet, gave water from a rock, and told them precisely where to move their tents. He gave precise instruction on how to build a tabernacle in order to worship Him, protected from enemies, gave commandments on how to live their daily lives and all during a period of discipline or punishment as it were.
You see, just as He still loves us even when we mess up and He must chasten us, we still love our children even though we must discipline them. As a matter of fact, God commands us to correct and discipline our children when they step outside of our rules. The bible says in Hebrews 12:6 - For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Hebrews 12:8 - But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Proverbs 22:15 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. Proverbs 29:17 - Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. Proverbs 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. When we have our children be in correction and discipline, we do not withhold love and affection, or provision of food, shelter, laundry or whatever. At least, we do not if we follow God's example. He cared for those who He had been angry with right up until their deaths. They just did not get to enter the earthly promised land.
We are also to tell others the error of their ways by correcting them and showing them from scripture where they are going astray. Mind you, this is not done piously or as though we are not capable of falling. James 5:20 - Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. We are to spread the gospel to all. This will include showing them their sinful state. When a fellow Christian is stepping out into sin, we are to restore such an one. Galations 6:1 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
When David sinned with Bathsheba, it was Nathan the prophet who told him a story and when David was angered over the person in the story who sinned, Nathan said, "Thou art the man." God used Nathan to convict David of his sin and in turn David humbled himself and sought forgiveness from God. God still punished David by taking his newborn son conceived with Bathsheba. Later, God gave David and Bathsheba their son, Solomon who went on to be a great king after David died. Though God punished David for his sin, He didn't turn away and leave David. He continued to bless and help him and called David "a man after God's own heart".
We cannot fully comprehend the love and care of God in our human minds. The Bible says that His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are higher than ours. We just trust that He is Sovereign and in charge and maketh no mistake! He loves us even when He is compelled to discipline us.
