"God is disciplining us through financial struggle because of her dishonesty"
How it sounds in your head: She lied about that credit card for six months. God is holy - He doesn't bless deception. This financial pressure is Him teaching us a lesson. We'll get breakthrough after we've learned what He's trying to show us.
"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross."
-- Colossians 2:13-14Religion teaching God uses poverty as punishment, making Father into angry disciplinarian instead of running Prodigal Father
Old Testament punishment narratives, church teaching about God's discipline, and the fact that struggle followed sin creates apparent causation.
A literal CRIMINAL being executed for actual crimes asked Jesus to remember him. Jesus didn't say 'serve your sentence first' or 'learn your lesson.' THAT DAY: 'Today you will be with Me in Paradise.' Zero discipline. Instant acceptance.
I REFUSE the lie that God disciplines through poverty. IT IS WRITTEN that He has forgiven ALL trespasses and nailed the record to the cross. Her lies were paid for 2,000 years ago. IT IS WRITTEN that the thief on the cross received Paradise THAT DAY with zero punishment. I am under GRACE, not law. Romans 8:1 - there is NO CONDEMNATION to those in Christ Jesus. The BARAK blessing doesn't wait for lessons learned.
Your Father isn't using financial pressure as a teaching tool - He nailed ALL discipline to the cross on His own body. The thief got Paradise with no probation period, and you're getting breakthrough with no punishment timeline.