All evil bears its punishment with it. Evil spirits are punished
because the fear of punishment is the one means of subduing evils in
this state. Exhortation no longer avails, nor instruction, nor fear of
the law nor fear for one's reputation; for now the spirit acts from a
nature which cannot be coerced or broken except by punishment.
--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 509
It is a law in the other life that no one shall become worse than he
had been in the world.
--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 6559