Ex 5:6-9
6 Pharaoh took immediate action. He sent down orders to the slave-drivers and their underlings: 7 "Don't provide straw for the people for making bricks as you have been doing. Make them get their own straw. 8 And make them produce the same number of bricks — no reduction in their daily quotas! They're getting lazy. They're going around saying, 'Give us time off so we can worship our God.' 9 Crack down on them. That'll cure them of their whining, their god-fantasies."

This is about how God’s people are treated in this world.