Chastisement

The very pit itself is a place of torments and of chastisement, but is not eternal. It was made that it might be a medicine and help to those who sin. Sacred are the stripes which are medicine to those who have sinned. “Therefore we do not complain of the pits [of hell] (abyssis), but rather know that they are places of torment, and chastisement, being for the correction [amendment] of those who have sinned.”