Three angels, disguised as men, visited Abraham. One of them revealed God's plan to destroy the wicked cities, Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham bargained with God to spare the cities if there were righteous people living in them. God agreed to not destroy them as long as ten righteous people lived there. Abraham's nephew, Lot, took the men back to his house and fed them. All of the men in the city came to his house in the night and demanded to have sex with Lot's guests. Lot protected the men and instead offered his two virgin daughters. The mob tried to break down the door and the angels struck them blind. Lot and his family escaped to Zoar and God cast burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah, to punish the people's wickedness. Lot's wife disobeyed the angels, looked back, and turned into a pillar of salt.
"Unfair punishment" exists because of the difference in opinion. There is a lot of gray area in the Bible and it's sometimes hard to distinguish between right and wrong. When it comes to punishment, what one thinks is fair, another might think is unfair, depending on their morals. God is just. His laws are set in stone and when they're disobeyed, there is consequence. Like reprimanding a child, he wants us to learn from our mistakes, and sometimes the only way to act differently is to know how awful the alternative is.
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