If chastisement did not keep up and protect (the world), then no body would have read the Vedas, nobody would have milked a milch cow, and no maiden would have married.
न ब्रह्मचार्यधीयीत कल्याणी गौर्न दुह्यते। न कन्योद्वहनं गच्छेद् यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्॥