Does God punish us for our sins?

Once again we have to separate the word of God into two segments. The old testament and the new testament. clearly in the old testament God punished and brought his wrath down on man multiple times for his disappointment and anger in mans behavior. But you will not find any mention of God doing this or threatening to do this after the life of Jesus!! Many Christians live in fear of being judged or punish by the wrath of God. This in no way to live your life and not the way God wants us to live! Do you want your children to fear you?? Of course not, so why would God want it any different?
I remember a leader in my life saying once that God was trying to teach me a lesson or get my attention when we nearly crashed in our airplane several years ago. We had lost power to both engines at 27,000 feet and glided for nearly 8 minutes through clouds and mountain valleys. Fortunately the engines re fired at 2000 feet and we were able to make an emergency landing on one engine in ukiah california. I remember this man talking to several hundred people explaining how God will use tragedy or disaster to get your attention or even punish you for doing the wrong things. What an outrageous statement and an even more painful one to hear. After deep studies I can confidently conclude that this is not how our loving God works in these days after what Jesus did on the cross for all of us. Some even have said the tragedy of 911 is Gods wrath!! What an outrage!! Terrorism is the work of the Devil not our Lord that loves us completely. I dont think that God and a terrorist would agree on anything do you???
My friends, I can promise you that all of our sins have been punished on the cross. God is on our side and when he is for you then how can anyone stand against you?
Some people talk about the punishment of David for committing adultery. Let me remind you that David was under the old covenant and was dealt with according to the law not the testament of grace. In psalm 32:2 David said "blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin" this was also quoted on Romans 4:8. What do you think this meant? David was looking prophetically into the covenant of grace. He was describing you and me and how our sins are not judged but are washed away by the blood of Jesus. To not impute sin does not mean to never sin again It just gave us a place to go with our sins. Did Jesus die on the cross to free us from never committing a sin. Well I hate to break it you but if that was the purpose; he failed! NOT! It means that our sins will no longer be counted against you nor will you be punished for them.
So once again we are back to the question of will this freedom and grace and non judgement cause you to go out and sin freely?? I really doubt it! It has had the opposite effect on me and probably you to!! It has caused me to fall deeper in love with him. It should give us all strength and confidence to break free of any strong holds in our lives.
Remember this! We are all sinners. God does not have a measuring stick of sin like man does. They are all the same to him. Jesus said in fact! " you shall not murder, but i say to you that whoever is angry with his brother has sinned or whoever even looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery". Jesus showed us it was impossible for anyone to be justified by the law. Only He could fulfill the law on our behalf and justify us by grace. There is no curve system for sin. They are all the same and all we need is a relationship with Jesus to deal with them. God does not judge your failures.
All your sins were judged at the cross. Praise God! Now lets go serve and make a difference for him and all he has done for us!!!!!!!!!!!!