Judgments are Sent, As Punishment For: Disobedience to God

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, …

But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,

…then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.