How does God chastise us?

Does God chastise us or do we chastise ourselves?

Romans 8:35–37 (KJV), “35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

• HOLY SPIRIT: 35. Does anyone have the power to snatch us from Jesus? Can the sword, peril, nakedness, famine, persecution,distress or tribulation take us from Him? 36. Documentation evidence that our souls are consistently murdered; and are collected like exterminated innocent animals. 37. The truth is, Jesus’ love has given us victory.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV), “God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

• HOLY SPIRIT:We can become saints because God allowed His son who did not have a sinful nature to become sin in order to give us an opportunity to come before Him.

Ephesians 5:1–2 (NIV), “1 Follow God’s example, therefore, as…