I feel sorry for you if you believe anyone deserves to be hit. We are more civilized than that, especially Catholics.
Hitting is just a start down the slippery slope to abuse.
I can remember 60 years ago fathers and brothers often telling a groom, "lay a finger on her and you'll have me to deal with". Now that is the tradition I remember.
When a wife refuses to honour, obey, and respect her husband she is committing a serious sin. She would be far better off getting hit in this life, if it prevented her from going to hell or spending more time in purgatory.
It seems quite likely that many women are failing in their duties as wives because there are no consequences in this life. Women feel like they can get away with these things and so imperil their souls.
If corporal punishment necessarily leads to abuse, as you claim, then that would mean that it would be wrong to use such punishment on children. Punishments, and authority in general, are things that can be misused, but that does not make them wrong.