How Hinduism and Christianity sees ‘Act of Cheating’ as going against God.

Think a moment before cheating someone.

Consequences of cheating your spouse in marriage will include hurting two families, your own
parents, your siblings and loved ones. You hurt these people even before the infidelity is
discovered. Active cheating will emotionally distant you from your spouse and loved ones for a
long period and without consciousness you have gained lot of sins and debt which you cannot
pay and finish. You certainly bring sorrow to other people’s lives. To get away with infidelity,
cheaters will have to lie over and over again. Cheaters often tell lies that makes no sense, waste
time which they could have spent to understand their partners better and love them more
closely, thus cheater create a big gap and restless between themselves and their partners. When
the cheating is finally uncovered, according to one recent study of women married to serial
cheaters, many betrayed wives experience acute stress and anxiety symptoms characteristic
of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a serious mental-health issue with chronic internal
and external consequences to their spouses, in which their spouses go through hell to believe
what happened to them and adjust to the tragedy and get back to normal life. Which you have
no idea unless you have experienced the same in your life. Most cheaters do not know how
difficult this period is for the spouse as they have not being themselves in this position, and if
they have, they would never even think of the idea of cheating.

The worst part is, it doesn’t matter how careful you are but you will get caught soon or later. God
will find a way to give wisdom to your spouse especially if the spouse has been living ethically
and completely innocent. You may think you got away with something, but there are always
consequences, even if no one else knows what you did. Whether there is a god or not, it’s
clear that life is set up to apply automatic punishments. Whether God did that or not is
sort of irrelevant. Whether this is a simulated existence and we’re all just bits in a giant
computer of some sort, or whether classic religion is true and we’ll end up with the angels or in
the eternal fiery pit doesn’t change anything here.

You will be judged and punished by life. Specially if your spouse was a responsible person,
providing you a home and helping you fulfill your needs and lived by code of conduct, ethical
nature, you will have to go through serious punishments in this life itself and this will probably
not end there. If you are married and end up being a cheater, you have harmed lot of people
around you. Your own family and your spouse’s family and your kids if you have any. The
essence of justice is that one should not do that to others, which, if is done by
others to him or her results in hurting him/herself. Therefore, the criminal nature of
the sin resulting in punishment is always due to only damage done by yourself to others. Hence,
God in the Gita mentioned that only these three sins are the main gates to hell, which are
violence, financial corruption and illegal sex.

Illegal sex, described as sexual pleasure without the approval of your spouse, which is based on
blind lust linked to the quality of Tamas. God Shiva stands for Tamas and becomes furious due
to this sin. Just you observe Lord Shiva, who burnt the cupid enraging lust in any living being.
You must always meditate upon Lord Shiva to avoid this sin. If you are cheating a husband by
going with his wife or cheating a father by going with his daughter, imagine yourself standing in
the place of such husband and father! By which you are hurt, you should not do the same to
others as said above by Bhishma.
Let’s look at how cheaters get punishesd in most common cases that we victim in
daily life,

You will be punished automatically when you are most weak in life, during a period you feel
loneliness as what goes around is what comes around. There are very high chances that cheaters
will get cheated over and over in life, so that you will taste your own karma. Science has proven
that people who cheats and get away with their adultery partners will end up in sorrow and their
marriages have highest chances to break again and again. Cheaters get away with their partners
who stimulated or supported them to cheat, so it’s a reunion of two cheaters. What more bad
can happen to them when this itself is a promise to get cheated by their infidelity partners.

In most religions it is believed following consequences are unavoidable in this life,

1.) Disgrace and public ashamed. Your partner, your family members, your friends, society
and then public will know you are a cheater and involved with infidelity.
2.) Sex scandals. Cheaters usually end up in sex-scandals and they completely destroy their
career and public respect. Most of them end up having STD and suffer at a later part in
their lives as STD is God’s curse.
3.) Litigation and punished by the law.
4.) Having to start the life over again from scratch and nobody respects you as they know
you are a cheater. People most closed to you will be the people who helped you in
cheating your spouse and you are circled by unethical people whether you like it or not.
5.) If you are living with the partner who helped you to cheat or with a new person who is
completely unaware of your unethical conduct, you will eventually find your new partner
starts abusing you and often blame you a ‘Cheater’. This is the case mostly with women
who end up cheating their husbands. They spend the rest of their lives being verbally
abused by their new partners often whenever an argument happens.
6.) You will end up living a sorrow-full life and end up in unavoidable debt and financial
trouble.
7.) There will be no happiness in anything you try to do as you will live with guilt, are some
of common things cheaters end up with.