فَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذَنُوبًا مِّثْلَ ذَنُوبِ أَصْحَـٰبِهِمْ فَلَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونِ Qur’an Az-Zariyat (51:59)Fainna lillatheena thalamoo thanooban mithla thanoobi ashabihim fala yastaAAjiloona
Implying that every act of evildoing bears the seed of its own retribution either in this world or in the hereafter.
Each generation, that acts like any of its predecessors, must meet a similar fate. If the wicked came to an evil end in the past, the same results will follow in the present and the future. The punishment will come suddenly enough: let them not in mockery ask that it should be hastened.