A. Some do not repent despite suffering & affliction:

ISA 1:5. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

ISA 42:25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

ISA 57:17. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

JER 2:30. In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

JER 5:3. O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

DAN 9:13. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

NEH 9:26. Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

NEH 9:27. Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

NEH 9:28. But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

NEH 9:29. And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

ISA 9:13. For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

AMO 4:6. And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

B. Suffering causes the truly wicked to curse God even more:

2CH 28:22. And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

PRO 29:1. He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

ISA 8:21. And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

REV 16:9. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

REV 16:10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

REV 16:11. And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

LEV 26:23. And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

LEV 26:24. Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

C. It causes some to repent & seek God:

DEU 31:17. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

2CH 15:4. But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

PSA 78:34. When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

ISA 26:16. LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

JER 2:27. Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

D. It turns unsaved or disobedient to God:

2CH 33:9. So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

2CH 33:10. And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

2CH 33:11. Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

2CH 33:12. And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

2CH 33:13. And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.

JOB 34:31. Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

JOB 34:32. That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

DAN 4:30. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?

DAN 4:31. While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

DAN 4:32. And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

DAN 4:33. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

DAN 4:34. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:

DAN 4:35. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

DAN 4:36. At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.

DAN 4:37. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

LUK 15:16. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

LUK 15:17. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

LUK 15:18. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

LUK 15:19. And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

LUK 15:20. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

REV 11:13. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

HOS 2:6. Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.