Habakkuk
Habakkuk is a prophet's argument with God, recorded for everyone who has ever asked why. He begins with a complaint: violence and injustice flourish in Judah, and God seems silent. God's answer staggers him, judgment is coming through the Babylonians, and prompts a harder question: how can a holy God use a nation more wicked than its victims? The reply becomes one of Scripture's load-bearing sentences: the righteous shall live by his faith. The book closes not with answers but with a sung prayer, and one of the Bible's most defiant confessions: though every harvest fails, yet I will rejoice.
Habakkuk the prophet; the book tells us nothing more of him.
Around 609–605 BC, as Babylon rose to power.
Judah, facing internal injustice and the looming Babylonian threat.
To wrestle honestly with God's ways in a violent world, teaching that the righteous live by faith.