Why did the author of Hebrews draw Habakkuk (Heb 10:37-38) into the beginning of his famous "by faith" argument in Hebrews 11? Because Habakkuk was a shining example of how the righteous live by faith. By faith, Habakkuk, accepting an unresolvable, paradoxical tension in his life, discovered joy as he learned to contemplate the unrealized promises of the future in light of the realized promises of the past.