"Woe to you" - doesn't seem to pack much of a punch these days. The message of this chapter of Habakkuk is similar to the messages of Nahum - but this language seems softer and less imposing to me.
Perhaps the entire concept of "woe" is soft in our language...it sounds more poetic than intimidating.
This is probably why people forget the "woe to you" parts of the beatitudes in Luke. They are written just as firmly as these harsh prophetic words in Habakkuk, but we tend to skim over them and pretend they aren't a real threat.
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