retribution
nouns
a justly deserved penalty
the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
is a type of (narrower)
the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
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