Isaiah 1:5

Why? Or, “where?” The body is so covered with lacerations and bruises that the father hesitates to administer further punishment, though it is needed, and in mercy prefers not to strike the son where the wounds of previous beatings have not healed.

Stricken any more. By their sins the professed people of God had brought woe upon themselves. The deeper they went into sin, the greater the weight of woe they took upon themselves (see ch. 5:18). Isaiah endeavored to reason with them, asking why they chose to pursue so foolish a course of action. The picture is of a persistently rebellious son who has suffered beating after beating for his misdeeds until his entire body is lacerated.

Ye will revolt more and more. Rather, “that ye continue to revolt.” Isaiah was not predicting rebellion, but commenting on the fact that persistence in evil had occasioned the continuing strokes of corrective punishment from which they suffered.