If we look at the pleasures of this world, they will captivate us, and pull us away from our spirituality. The result is blindness, and perhaps doubt.
The result will be chastening,
IF you are a true son. If you are not chastened, you are not a true son.
When we were children, we had parents who chastened us as they thought good. But God chastens us "for our good". Not just what someone thinks is good, no, God chastens us for our good. His chastening is effective.
You can't get there from here.
You cannot say that the true child of God might wander away into renewed spiritual death. Because if you do, then you are stuck with saying that God either DOES NOT chasten His true children, or that His chastening IS NOT effective.
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
IF God is chastening you, then it WILL yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
The simplicity of this passage is that if you are a true son, you will be chastened, and that chastening will be effective.
He who began a good work in you will complete it UNTIL the day of Christ Jesus.
So where is there room for failure? If you have been redeemed by your Creator . . . rejoice evermore!
Much love!