You punished my sins with an abundance of your gifts.

Lord of my soul, how shall I praise the grace that you have shown me in these years? The more I offended you, the more you prepared me with biting contrition to receive further graces and favors. And that was the most refined and also the hardest punishment you could send upon me, for you knew, my King, that this was what tormented me the most. Yes, you punished my sins with an abundance of your gifts!

(Teresa of Jesus, The Book of Life VII,19)