Maybe if we focus on it...
G-d won’t have to. We’re going to take one more look at TOCHACHA, reproach. Admonition. Rebuke. Remember that the extensive and intensive versions of the Tochacha are in B’CHUKOTAI and KI TAVO. A bit before Shavuot and a bit before Rosh HaShana. There are many other passages in the Torah, especially coming up in several sedras of D’varim. But in Eikev, there is a special passage that contains reproach and warning. What makes it special is that we don’t just hear it read on Shabbat Parshat Eikev; we are commanded to recite it every single day of our lives, twice a day

And this passage is not like the sledge hammers of B’chukotai and Ki Tavo. It is gentle. It is simple. And it is crystal clear. If you will “hear well” the mitzvot - to love G-d and serve Him with all your heart and soul, then good things will happen. But if you don’t listen and do mitzvot, if you turn your back to G-d, then bad things will happen. Then the Torah adds that we should take this seriously, bind the words of this passage and others daily on our arms and heads, affix them to our doorposts, and learn and teach these lessons well.

This deal that G-d offers us is said in many different ways. All we have to do is do as He asks.

One more point to ponder. Tell two children what their reward for behaving will be and what their punishment for misbehaving will be. The child who is committed to obey his parents, out of love and fear, will smile at the thought of the reward. The naughty child will shiver with dread at the thought of the punishment he feels will probably become his. It’s all about choices and commitment. We can do it!