Albert Barnes Commentary Habakkuk 1:14

"and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?" — Habakkuk 1:14 (ASV)

And make men as the fishes of the sea - mute, helpless, in a stormy, restless element, no cry heard, but themselves swept away in shoals, with no power to resist.

As the creeping things - whether of the land (as it is mostly used), or the sea (Psalms 104:25). Either way, it is a contemptuous name for the lowest of either.

That have no ruler over them - none to guide, order, protect them, and so a picture of man deprived of the care and providence of God.