It is about time that we get over the idea that there is a rewarding or punishing God. There is no God to reward or punish anybody for anything. God is not a man or a woman. God has no human instincts. God is spirit and God is love, and when we remember how parents love their bad children as well as their good ones, how much less cognizance must God take of goodness or badness? We do indeed receive punishment for our wrongdoing, but from what source does that punishment come? The punishment never comes from God: it is from the state of consciousness that brought about the sin.