How to tell if God is punishing you?

Every thought, every word, every act, good or bad, will be opened to inspection. 

Why, what is punishment? What is that thick wall, which even the Light of the Great Spirit fails to penetrate? It is the incrustation of those dark thoughts, those evil deeds and words of the unhappy spirit. 

Alas! poor fellow, he is closely imprisoned! Ah! did I not suffer for my folly! Well, it is all over now! 

Take care, set a watch on yourselves, for you will never be able to forget anything even though it be repented of—all is recorded in imperishable characters on a scroll, which you cannot leave behind you—

Your good and your evil deeds are there inscribed forever.

—Jan Steen in Spirit