I taught a martial arts class tonight. I've been learning and teaching for about twenty-two years now. It's an interesting process for me. You often see people in classes who will decide to pull stupid and even dangerous stunts which they shouldn't. Depending on the teacher you have, this will be responded to in different ways. I have had the teachers who have told the student to go and sit on the sidelines for a bit. I've had teachers who have yelled at the student, laughed at the student or even struck or thrown the student to the floor.
This might sound harsh, but it depends on just how it all goes down. Done in a way so as to actually teach the student the error of their way, I've seen differing results. Nobody appears to like being yelled at, understandibly, but I have seen students respond to being physically corrected by their instructor in usually one of two ways. Some quit the class, and some stay and try to learn from the experience, most of the time owing to a respect they have for the teacher, and truly, if the teacher didn't care about the student, the student would not be corrected.

I've noticed in our walk with the Lord it is often the same way. We often pull stupid or even dangerous spiritual stunts that we shouldn't. I've experienced correction from the Lord, and I have tried to ignore it a time or two. That's a rather huge mistake. Things just get worse. He wouldn't chastise me if He didn't love me. I have love and respect for my 'Teacher'. I've watched as other believers ignore the correction they get from the Lord, however it comes, whether through the Bible as they read it, or when the Lord speaks in different ways to their heart. I often want to, and have actually pointed out to some that they need to go before the Lord and seek His guidence. I don't tell them that they're bozos, or that they're screwing up badly, even though I know from personal experience that that's exactly what they are and exactly what they're doing. I sometimes tell them that I have received similar correction from Him, or simply that instead of increasing our distance from Him when things aren't falling into place the way that we want them to, we need to draw closer to Him, because usually when things are falling apart, it means that we have been tyring to do things on our own, apart from the guidence of the Teacher.