He will be my Protector and Provider all the days of my life. The truth is, the quality of your and my experience of life is determined by our ability to personalize the Father-heart of God. The dilemma is that that experience is greatly affected by our experiences with our earthly fathers. So many dads are simply not present with their kids. And too often, even if fathers are present, they're not emotionally available, or they're very critical and hard to please, or they're not interested in what their kids are doing.
Dads become simply punishers or pushers.
They just can't feel His Father-heart. They don't experience His love and concern and unconditional caring for them. They have no reference point. Instead, God is seen as a punisher or pusher, judge or jury, just like Dad. In order for people to experience God's Father-heart, they need to experience their own fathers' hearts.