All in Chastised

Have you ever stopped to consider that not every misfortune that you face in life is put upon you by Satan? Some are just natural occurrences of living, through which we exercise the lessons of faith we have been taught, but others are the corrections of our Heavenly Father as he chastises us. In this modern era, we have been conditioned to believe that we should reason with our children and are never meant to discipline them beyond that, but is this biblical?