Colossians 3:25

For he who deals wrongfully will [reap the fruit of his folly and] be punished for his wrongdoing. And [with God] there is no partiality [no matter what a person’s position may be, whether he is the slave or the master]. Colossians 3:25

Let’s talk about being punished by our Father. 

Or are you [so blind as to] trifle with and presume upon and despise and underestimate the wealth of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering patience? Are you unmindful or actually ignorant [of the fact] that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repent (to change your mind and inner man to accept God’s will)? Romans 2:4

The first thing to understand about God’s punishment is that is it is our Father’s kindness, not His wrath, that leads us to repent. Also remember what we studied earlier in Colossians 3 that our Father cannot be to harsh with us. The best example in the Bible of people who should have been punished was the people who crucified Jesus. They first wrongfully accused Him. Then they tried to humiliate Him. Then they tortured Him. Then they nailed Him to a Cross. This is exactly how ISIS kills people today. These people should have been utterly destroyed and yet Jesus forgave them.

Remember too that Jesus has been given the duty of Judging all people and the Bible tells us that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, He never will change. We all do wrong things, we cannot help it. We were actually created to mess up.

For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike]. Romans 11:32

Jesus, our perfect sacrifice, our Lord and Savior, even told the people that He wasn’t good, Luke 18:19. Paul wrote that none of us is good, no not one, romans 3:10. So our punishment is our Father’s kindness and mercy. Not a bad way is it? The Truth is that our Father doesn’t take account of any of our sins. What? Yes, that is what the Bible tells us.

Thus David congratulates the man and pronounces a blessing on him to whom God credits righteousness apart from the works he does: Blessed and happy and to be envied are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered up and completely buried. Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him. Romans 4:6-8

Our Father is not a respecter of persons, Acts 10:34. And our Father is Love, 1 John 4:8. 

It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. 1 Corinthians 13:5

God is Love and Love takes no account of the evil done to it. Just like Jesus took no account of the evil done to Him by the people who crucified Him. Our Father will correct us and He will lead us and guide us, but our punishment, which is the mercy of our Father, never fits the crimes that we all commit. So lighten up on yourself and those around you, because our Father is very light on us.