The husband is in authority over his household and has the right/responsibility to discipline his entire household, including the wife.
Do You Love Your Wife Enough To Beat Her? This Pastor Does! - The Landover Baptist Church Forum
Discipline is a practical expression of love, a proactive way of helping a wife to grow and mature; motivating her to re-align her priorities so that she will not end up in mediocrity.
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SUBMIT to your husband as if he were God:
Ephesians 5:22 (King James Version)
22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Colossians 3:18 (King James Version)
18Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Peter demonstrates that being a wife is like being a slave by reviewing various submissive relationships: 1. Slaves, I Pet.2:18-19, 20. 2. Christ, the pattern for both, I Pet.2:21, 23. 3. Wives, "in the same way", I Pet.3:1, 5-6
In this last piece of scripture, Pete says that wives should behave like slaves:
1 Peter 3:1 (King James Version)
1Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;