God's Department of Correction

A department of correction
Is provided by our state
To monitor all the citizens,
Who have probation as their fate.

God has His own department
Of correction, as you know,
To keep His children in line
As they struggle here below.

It's called the chastening rod.
God uses it when it is needed,
When His children fall in sin,
And His rules they haven't heeded.

He has angelic messengers,
Who act as parole officers here,
And when Christians go astray,
Chastening will come, I fear.

Just remember, dear Christian,
Whom God loves, He chastens too,
So let's avoid the chastening rod
By obeying what we should do.