But those Galileans should have kept to their own territory rather than coming down to Jerusalem to further their political schemes. They got what they deserved. Then there was that story of the eighteen people crushed by the horrible collapse of the tower of Siloam, a construction project gone drastically wrong. God made that tower fall. Anyone who cooperates with evil gets evil in return.
People get what they deserve.
Nothing unique in that kind of thinking. People get what they have coming to them, and if something bad happens, at some level, somehow, somewhere, they were asking for it. A prostitute is murdered, her body dumped in a ditch - divine retribution, some say. Lots of folks do. Such a belief helps folks explain the inexplicable.