Minecraft Render Distance is Messed Up?

So I have been trying to stop hacking on minecraft sounds good I know! However I deleted my.minecraft and started it back up and my render distance won't go farther then 5 blocks which isn't normal at all. So i've unfortunately basically redownloaded the hacks because of the fact that my render distance only is good when I have them on. Also side note my chests which are covered in water (factions) look very strange? But the render is the main issue.