Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
A. There is retributive suffering in which one's sins return, in a sense, upon his own head.  Lost health and suffering due to godless living is an example, and the savage vengeance of evil men against real or fancied wrongs perpetrated upon them is another.  Adoni-Bezek cut off the thumbs and great toes of seventy kings who groveled for food beneath his table, and then it happened to him.  He said, "As I have done, so God hath requited me"  (Judges 1:6).  Many a sufferer can say the same thing.