Justice of God 
 
 That perfection of his nature whereby he is infinitely righteous in 
 himself and in all he does, the righteousness of the divine nature 
 exercised in his moral government. At first God imposes righteous laws 
 on his creatures and executes them righteously.  Justice is not an 
 optional product of his will, but an unchangeable principle of his 
 very nature. His legislative justice is his requiring of his rational 
 creatures conformity in all respects to the moral law. His rectoral or 
 distributive justice is his dealing with his accountable creatures 
 according to the requirements of the law in rewarding or punishing 
 them Ps 89:14 In remunerative justice he distributes rewards 
 Jas 1:12 2Ti 4:8 in vindictive or punitive justice he inflicts 
 punishment on account of transgression 2Th 1:6 He cannot, as 
 being infinitely righteous, do otherwise than regard and hate sin as
 intrinsically hateful and deserving of punishment.  "He cannot deny
 himself" 2Ti 2:13 His essential and eternal righteousness
 immutably determines him to visit every sin as such with merited
 punishment.