" He may have also envied the fact that his son was a cop, the preacher thought of himself as a man of peace, and he envied the man of action.

The son didn't envy the father. Virgil had been raised in a church and the problems his father dealt with, he thought, would have driven him crazy. It's relatively easy to solve a problem with a gun and a warrant and a prison, but what do you do about somebody who is unloved? "

― John Sandford , Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)