12 Having reached this point of my discourse, and being reminded of the passages just before mentioned, in which God was addressed as the Father of men, I am greatly amazed at men's insensibility. For God with unspeakable loving-kindness deigned to be called the Father of men—He in heaven, they on earth—and He the Maker of Eternity, they made in time,— He who holds the earth in the hollow of His hand, they upon the earth as grasshoppers. Yet man forsook his heavenly Father, and said to the stock, You are my father, and to the stone, You have begotten me. And for this reason, methinks, the Psalmist says to mankind, Forget also your own people, and your father's house, whom you have chosen for a father, whom you have drawn upon yourself to your destruction.
Source: Catechetical Lectures (New Advent)