Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 1:3

3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity , and cause me to behold grievance ? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention .

It is a most unpleasing sight, and that which troubles me, and every good man, to see unjust and injurious men without controul, and unpunisht, to act their iniquity; and yet, O God, thou not only permittest it to be done, but to be done in sight, and to the grief of thy servants; thus God sheweth it, and 'tis not without just cause, though the cause be hidden.

Men of iniquity and vanity; unrighteous toward men, and vain in their thoughts and practices of Religion toward God.

This explains the former, let. m.

So 'tis in regard of the effect it hath upon beholders, and such as suffer by this iniquity; 'tis grief and sorrow to them, 'tis a grievance they groan under.

Such as wasteth, and undoeth them that fall under it.

Perverting Judgment, and turning it into Wormwood; or else 'tis a Hebraism, spoiling and violence, that is most violent robbing and spoiling each other.

Every where I see it, to the breaking of mine heart.

Or, and there is strife, that is, little else but strife among men, occasioned by these oppressive practices.

So 'twill be a Hebraism, expressing endless contentions. It would bear, and Iudgment is taken away, which suits the next verse.