I read a while ago about some Boeing employees who decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s.
They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. They forgot about one thing--the raft comes with an emergency locator that is automatically activated when the raft is inflated.
So, when they took the raft out for a float on the Stillaguamish River, they were quite surprised by a Coast Guard helicopter zeroing in on the emergency locator that was activated the moment they inflated the raft.
They are no longer Boeing employees.
In a very real way when we sin, it usually cannot be hidden for long, and it isn't God who punishes us. Like the Boeing employees, we bring the punishment on ourselves.