Peter Houston paints the picture from Habakkuk 2:1-4 of Habakkuk's genuine anger and confusion that his nation is in a bad way and yet, to his utter dismay, God proposes to fix it by something far worse: the invasion by Babylon, a terrible and terrifying nation, and the exile of Judah's most able. What on Earth was God doing?!
We have the benefit of knowing how God's plan to purge Judah of its apostasy turned out - but, in our turn, we do not know how God's plans for us will play out. Thus, like Habakkuk, we must live by faith.
