the answer to this question is Punishment punishment refers to the penalty that given to a certain someone if that person is not complying to a certain rules/standard. The purpose of punishment is to discourage that person from repeating that action again unless they're prepared for the consequences.
A punishment of course. If his parents tell him not to throw rocks, and tell him the consequences of doing it again it's a punishment. That teaches him before he hurts someone, breaks something or hurts himself.
