Does God Punish?

Does God punish people while they are living (if they do wrong) or does He just chastise Christians when they do wrong, or does Jesus' death prevent Christians from being punished.....or does He bless and we suffer our own consequences to our own mistakes? or just what do you think????? AND REMEMBER, we can all have opinion, so let's respect everyone's opinion with an open mind PLZ.

Found this somewhere:     In Jesus we see a God who is caring, healing, redemptive and reconciling. We do not see a God who punishes, but rather a God that seeks to restore us to our full humanity. We see a God who is more interested in blessing than punishing, more inclined to raise up than strike down. Our human propensity to misuse power distorts our humanity, sometimes to the point where it is unrecognizable. The result of this separation from our full humanity—the humanity God created us to have—is that we suffer, and then we tend to call that suffering God's punishment rather than taking responsibility for it ourselves. It is not God who punishes us, it is we ourselves.

As the cartoon character Pogo once put it, "We have met the enemy and they is us."

—The Rev. C. Douglas Simmons