Given the question: Here's a question and a few possible answers:   Q: How bad is the punishment for someone who is over indulgent? Possible A: severe, harsh, hard, strict, self denying  Why is "severe" an answer aligned with human common sense?
The answer is:
to indulge (a desire, craving, or habit) to excess: overindulging a fondness for cake. 2. to indulge (a person) excessively: overindulges his children