Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O LORD,I forget where the passage in the Epistles is that says that those who God loves, He chastens. But the idea in both passages is the same. God cares for those who want to follow Him. But to follow Him, you have to know what you should be doing.
And whom You teach out of Your law;
As humans, we aren't very good at following God automatically. Thanks to the Fall, obeying God isn't our default setting. So we have to be taught. Even when we know the rules, we don't always follow them. So in order to encourage us to follow them, God disciplines us when we mess up. By doing this, we (hopefully) will pay better attention, and get it right when life's tests come along.
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