It can be a bad place when there is strife, difficulty, and separation between family members. It can be a difficult place. That's what we dream about. People who have come out of bad homes where the home life has not been very happy, one of the desires of their heart is that they will be able to have a happy home once they are married, once they have children, that things are going to be different. Reality is that happy homes do not come automatically.
Happy homes have to be constructed.
Happy homes have to be brought about. They are not simply automatic in today's world, nor has it been so in any world. In Psalm 127, Solomon mentions four things that God can do for the family. Now very often when we read this Scripture, we read it in connection with some type of building, and I suppose that would be good and profitable for that to be done, but I don't think that is exactly what Solomon is talking about. As Solomon goes down into verse 3, he begins to talk about children.