What Is Chastisement?
There are two meanings in Scripture for the word. One is punishment, and the other is discipline. Discipline is not punishment. Punishment does not have the objective of correcting or teaching, but retribution. We cannot just pick and choose which meaning that we want to append to it. For example, many have erroneously read the idea of punishment into Isaiah 53:5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him Wilsons Old Testament Word Studies points out that there are two words in Hebrew that are translated as chastisement. One as punishment, chastening; and the other as, to discipline, to correct, to chasten..,1 The passage in Isaiah being the latter definition, which excludes punishment. While the word can be used two ways, depending on the meaning of the original word used, it is wrong to suggest that we have license to interchange meaning because we cannot differentiate the meaning from its singular English
