Many wonder if the woes will bring people
to their senses or if these judgments cause
the nations to come to repentence.

One would hope so. But evil is far advanced.
"And the rest of the men which were not
killed by these plagues yet repented not of
the works of their hands, that they should
not worship devils, and idols of gold, and
silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood:
which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Neither repented they of their murders, nor
of the sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor
of their thefts." Revelation 9:20-21