What is a better translation, “punishing” or “visiting”?
Exodus 20:5 (ESV)
5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God,visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
“Visiting” might be the better translation. When the Lord God visits his people, he is calling them to repent from their sins.
5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,