The phrase "bring retribution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to negative consequences that someone experiences as a result of their wrong actions. For example: "The judge's sentence was intended to bring retribution for the thief's crime."
Businesses fear that taking a stand will bring retribution: bureaucratic harassment, arbitrary tax demands or missing out on public contracts.
He would be warned that cheating would bring retribution, as would attempts to produce weapons of mass destruction.
The Count strokes his pet mice and laughs "inwardly and silently" at the pious thought that criminal deeds bring retribution.
Such programs infuriate the government and bring retribution, said Ziad al-Ajili, executive director of the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, a local watchdog organization.
In the end the corruption of our corporate system will bring retribution; even if political action never comes, investors will eventually lose faith and put their money elsewhere.
Several herbs, especially St.-John's-wort and yarrow, are potent against fairies, and hawthorn trees, foxglove, and groundsel are so dear to them that abuse of these plants may bring retribution.
This brought retribution from Pacifica.
Conventionally this creation of a new story brings retribution to the transgressor.
"It's a very calibrated move that is designed to make a point without bringing retribution from the I.D.F., which is the last thing Hezbollah wants right now".
I suspect the sci-fi allure of bringing retribution from the skies, with no risk to any American lives, will out-weigh such considerations.
In other words, blocking the inspectors would this time bring swift retribution.
