Pŭn'ish-ment, n.

1. The act of punishing.
2. Any pain or suffering inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense; especially, pain so inflicted in the enforcement or application of law.

I never gave them condign punishment. Shak. The rewards and punishments of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law, are of weight enough to determine the choice against whatever pleasure or pain this life can show. Locke.