The phrase "undergo punishment" is correct and can be used in written English to describe someone suffering the consequences of their actions or breaking a law or rule. It can also refer to undergoing a specific type of disciplinary action. Here is an example of how it can be used in a sentence: After being caught stealing from the store, the thief was forced to undergo punishment, including community service and paying fines.
A novella for 6-to-10-year-olds, it centers on the developing relationship between a spoiled young prince and the street urchin engaged to undergo punishments in his stead.
In addition to making amends by undergoing punishment there is also an element of "learning your lesson" and after serving their time wrongdoers can start again with a clean sheet.
Some penal theorists, however, especially those who connect punishment to apology, will reply that what offenders owe precisely includes accepting, undertaking, or undergoing punishment.
Moreover, while Orphism presents a heavily moralized version of metempsychosis in accordance with which we are born again for punishment in this life so that our body is the prison of the soul while it undergoes punishment, it is not clear that the same was true in Pythagoreanism.
First, in the sacrament of penance it did not suffice to have the guilt (culpa) of sin forgiven through absolution alone; one also needed to undergo temporal punishment (poena, from p[o]enitentia, "penance") because one had offended Almighty God.
No reason was given for such treatment but in one specification, accused beat a PW while that PW was undergoing other punishment.
In Tan Eng Chye v. Director of Prisons (2004), a case concerning an application for an order of certiorari to quash the certification by a prison medical officer that the applicant was fit to undergo a caning punishment, the High Court held that not every act of or conduct by a public servant is justiciable by way of a judicial review.
(A recent Cabinet Office review recommended that those undergoing community punishments should wear fluorescent vests to shame them publicly).More importantly, the public is quite often ahead of the game.
At the last minute, I decided not to go to the police station and undergo this most humiliating punishment.
