2 Maccabees 6:13–16

¹³For it is a token of great goodness, when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.

¹⁴For, not as with other nations, (whom the Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them in the fulness of their sins:)

¹⁵Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us.

¹⁶And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity he forsaketh them not.