If they don t believe they ll reap, they will make heartbreaking choices later on. 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 make sure the punishment fits the crime respond immediately to the action be sure the boundaries and penalties are decided and discussed in advance and consistently enforced.