Does God Punish Us?

 As someone who attended a "mainline" Protestant seminary, I've had to "unlearn" some of the instincts that were instilled in me during my seminary days.  What I mean is this: in my early days of ministry, I was hesitant to even use words like "command" or "obey", because of a fear of sounding overly "harsh" to modern ears.  

Well, that was stupid.

Of course, another such word is "wrath."  
The very idea of divine punishment was, at least for some of my professors, a deep misunderstanding (at best).  While it is certainly true that many people's "pop-theology" embraces a very warped misunderstanding of what the Bible actually teaches on this topic, it remains true that this is indeed a theme of Scripture.  

As is often the case, I find that Bishop Barron makes a thoughtful and sensitive case for understanding the Bible's teaching on this point.