Tough concept. You share God’s mercy for years and years, and they get to be about 13 (or 16 for boys), and you’ve ruined their lives and stifled their greatness and yadda yadda yadda and pay my auto insurance bill and I need to go to the mall.
Well, it’s how God’s children act toward Him.
And sometimes discipline is the mercy needed. It doesn’t always need to be skipped.