Genesis 29: Who is God using to discipline you?

I found a humorous and valid application of Genesis in a commentary(Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of the Book of Genesis by Allen P. Ross). My faith family studied the life of Jacob this week. In Genesis chapter 29, Jacob, because of the deception of Laban, married both of Laban's daughters. Jacob loved the younger, Rachel, but was not in love with Leah. God used Laban's family to discipline the not so righteous Jacob. Here's what Kidner wrote in how God used Laban, Leah, and Rachel to discipline Jacob.

In Laban Jacob met his match and his means of discipline. Twenty years (31:41) of drudgery and friction were to weather his character; and the reader can reflect that presumably Jacob is not the only person to have needed a Laban is his life.

Through this man he also drank deeply of his own medicine of duplicity; yet even as the loser he displayed qualities that were lacking in Esau. The tenacity that showed at his birth and supremely, at Peniel, enabled him to regard the defeat over Rachel as only a setback.

The lesson that Ross gives from the passage is the following:

The lesson is that, even though God's people may experience God's blessing on their endeavors, God will effectively discipline them by making them painfully aware of their unresolved sins.

Ross had to be smiling when he wrote this observation.

If we use the story of Jacob as a sample, we may say that, when we are thrown together with people who are crafty, arrogant, deceitful, contentious, gossipy, or a host of other human frailties, before we lament that we have to be around such people, we perhaps should take a long look at ourselves. It may be that some of those traits characterize us and that other people may be part of God's means of disciplining us.

I let the readers of this post sort out whom God is using to discipline whom in their own lives.