Just ask old Eli, the priest of God in Samuel's day. He was a spiritual leader with two grown sons. They were perverting the ministry with their greedy and immoral lives. The judgment cost Eli his sons and his ministry heritage. All because when they went out of bounds, and nothing happened.
Effective discipline teaches the law of sowing and reaping.
Not punishment - discipline. Punishment is you dumping your anger on your child. That creates rebels. Discipline backs off from anger and gives the consequences that will teach the most. So try to discipline with the most natural consequences of the act . . .