This verse says He suspended punishment for sin before the cross. (redeeminggod.com)
BIBLE says that earthquakes, hurricances, floods, plagues, locusts, etc. are caused by God as punishment for sins SCIENCE explains that earthquakes are due to tectonic plate movements, hurricanes caused by ocean heat and coriolis effect, floods normal effect of weather fluctations, etc.. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
In the Old Testament not cruelty but well - considered judicial procedure, based on blood - brotherhood, was responsible for the wholesale destruction of a family in punishment for the sin of a single member of it, as in the case of Achan. (religion-online.org)