I'm in total agreement with FluffyDinosaur's and Fern's thoughts on this. All I will add is that there are countless people who suffer grave consequences from various illnesses or treatment and they did not "deserve" it, so in my book there was not specific "punishment from God". I'm talking about wonderful people, like my mother, who died young of cancer. I'm also thinking about people like a young girl of 12 that was sexually abused/raped by her father's best friend.

Speaking of the young 12 year old girl, her mother left her father (and her) when she was about 5 years old. That in itself can be a bit of a trauma for a child. Then the rape by the adult man. This young girl went on to do delinquent things at school, married and had three children that she eventually abandoned and had her father raise. She became a heroine addict and alcoholic and committed crimes (stealing, DWIs, drug dealing) that led to jail sentences. She became eccentric in other ways that would normally be rejected in society. Because of all of this, many people didn't want her around because they were afraid of her, kind of for good reasons. But why would she have been punished as a child? I know that she did nothing wrong back then. To this day, she continues to be punished by society, though her behavior did warrant it. I would hope/assume that if her childhood circumstances had been better, that her fate might have been different, at least to a large degree. She eventually received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, that her mother also has. Her paternal grandmother had a bipolar diagnosis, too. I knew her grandmother well. She was a lovely lady. I even like this girl's (now woman) mother, though of course I didn't like that she abandoned her daughter.

I am sort of an agnostic, but when I do think of a God (or Jesus), I don't think of punishment or hate. We all have our trials and tribulations. Sometimes they lead us to learn and become better people, and sometimes not. The bigger the challenge, the more significant the success, even compared to someone who rarely, if ever, had to deal with adversities.