Lotharson,
I agree. It’s crazy. I don’t hold to the whole Bible as inspired anymore. The idea of this discipline of the Father is crazy.
The Greek word here for scourge is mastigoō and it means whip, flay, scourge. Scourging means “to flay or skin” meaning to whip so as to draw blood. Here’s is how the word is used in the NT:
Pilate did not “have harsh words with Jesus as a loving father” he had him beaten bloody. That was “discipline” as practiced in Rome at the time. It was also common practice in the synagogue:
The reality is, monstrous, bloody, beating was common practice then. It was likewise common for children to be whipped bloody at the time too. And according to Hebrews God scourges those He loves. The writer of Hebrews didn’t know any better.