MormonTimes.com: The gospel in words — 'chasten'
"The Lord seeth fit to chasten his people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith." (Mosiah 23:21)
Chasten means "to inflict disciplinary or corrective punishment on; to visit with affliction for the purpose of moral improvement; to correct, discipline, chastise (usually of Divine chastisement)" (Oxford English Dictionary).
Chasten comes from the root which means "punish to improve," literally "to make pure." In "The Origins of English Words," we learn that chasten means "pure; cut free from fault; empty; to cut away from." Chaste, chastity, Catherine, quash and catharsis come from the same root.
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