The heart of a child is full of iniquity. You must drive it from him using the rod of correction.
Read your Bible, it's in there.
Check your concordance. I don't have time right now.
Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13 Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, But a child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother.
Either the above is true or God is a liar. Looper doesn't have a clue and many others in our society don't don't either.