If the book of Judges needed a tag line, I’d suggest this: Ours is a God of Second Chances.
The whole book essentually follows this cycle, one generation after another: The people break covenant with God > God allows another nation to oppress them > The people cry out > God sends a leader to rescue them > Things improve > The leader dies and the people break covenant again.
Rinse and repeat.
It’s enough to drive you crazy. Yet as frustrated as he gets, the Lord never quits. He’s intent on holding up his end of the deal. Ours is a God of second chances.
But he’s not just the Big Softy. There’s a method to his madness: His second chances are tests. What is he testing exactly? This: “To see whether they will keep the way of the Lord and walk in it as their ancestors did.” That is, “I hope they learn their lesson this time and raise their faithfulness aptitude score!”
Has God given you a second chance? (Or a third or fourth?) Pay attention to how it might be for the purpose of training you in faithfulness.
(See Judges 2:16-23.)