Is There a Punishment?

In brothers karmazo, there's a story about a man who confesses to killing some one. And so they just send him back to his family and he's tortured by that lack of punishment. I think oftentimes we're as sick as our darkest secret. It's really hard to be vessels of light when we're holding on to darkness. The goal is to be willing to face whatever punishment, not to actually be punished.