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It's no different than punishing a criminal with jail, sin is a crime against God, the creator. God is infinitely Holy and righteous so any sin against Him carries eternal consequences.

If you are coming at this from an intellectual point of view then you have to admit that it is impossible for something to be built on a foundation that doesn't exist, if nothingness is the foundation of existence then there would be no existence, what we observe, everything that makes up the world is finite and contingent. If we take this back to the point of origin we end up needing something that is infinite, something that is eternal, something that was not created but always existed, something that has a will to create something instead of existing by itself, something that cannot be constrained by the limits of time, space and matter and yet is powerful and is the foundation for the existence of all of these things.

That eternal being is God. Now, which God it is depends on how much you know about the beings that people call gods.