God the Father experiences profound suffering due to the rebellion of His children, as depicted in the poignant image of a disappointed Father facing Israel's defiance. This rebellion is a deep offense against His love and holiness, yet it does not diminish His compassionate nature. His judgment, though necessary, is marked by sorrow as He allows His people to suffer the consequences of their choices, such as the removal of blessings from a nation. Despite this, His love remains evident, as He sympathizes with His people in all their trials, always desiring to aid them. His discipline, though it may seem prolonged to those enduring it, is but a moment in the grand scope of His plans, intended to ultimately bring about greater mercies and restoration. This suffering of God as a Father underscores His merciful character, revealing that He takes no pleasure in anger but is moved by a heart of kindness, ensuring that sorrow is temporary and will be followed by joy for those in friendship with Him.

The Father turned away from Jesus when all the sins of mankind fell upon Him. Throughout the ordeal Jesus knew that His Father was watching while He suffered and every drop of life was drained out of Him. As Jesus hung on the cross He saw His Father turn away. The Father had to turn away because sin separates from God and all sins separated Jesus from His Father. The Father was also suffering. Despite it being part of His plan He was sacrificing the only Being that He could have a godly relationship with. God has deep feeling and emotion and as His Son bled out the Father was hurting. God endured this for us. The Father and the Son gave everything so that we can live eternally with Them.

Christ's suffering, as described in Hebrews 5:7-10, reveals that even being God's Son was not sufficient qualification for Him to become humanity's High Priest; rather, it was through actual suffering that He was made complete for that role. Paul's statement that Jesus "learned obedience" does not imply prior disobedience, since Jesus Himself testified that He always did what pleased the Father. Instead, it means He learned experientially what it meant to submit to God's will while enduring unfair, unjust, and intense hardship, becoming personally acquainted with suffering to a degree His spiritual brothers and sisters never will. This qualified Him to serve as the bridge between God and suffering humanity, interceding before the Father with complete understanding. Obedience also implies a standard whose violation carries consequences, meaning Jesus learned firsthand the wretched results of man's disobedience despite having always lived a superior way of life with the Father. His sufferings extended far beyond the crucifixion. Isaiah calls Him "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," and this grief began with rejection by His own people, misunderstanding from His human parents, disbelief from His own brothers, and anguish over Jerusalem's stubborn faithlessness. He grieved over humanity's unbelief, ingratitude, and rebellion, felt the pain of Judas's betrayal and abandonment by His closest companions, and endured the torment of having the accumulated sins and defilement of humanity fall upon His sinless being—an anguish perhaps exceeding even the physical scourging. Worst of all was the unimaginable distress of being severed from the Father because of this defilement by sin, breaking a oneness They had shared for eternity past. This anguish is unmistakable in His final cry from the cross, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" This suffering was not confined to the Son alone. The Father Himself suffers in the present order, even without the same direct contact with humanity that the Word had. The Hebrew term elohim, though plural in number, is singular in purpose, perspective, and nature, meaning that whatever grief one felt in creating humanity, both felt; whatever rejection and reviling the creation inflicted, both endured. Just as a father feels pain when his children reject him, and a master is dismayed by disobedient servants, the Father suffered by having to forsake the Companion He loved above all else and then endure the separation caused by death. Even God the Father, then, suffers from the evil effects of human sin, sharing in an anguish that mirrors and accompanies that of the Son.