Painful

The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’

So I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.