فَلَمَّآ ءَاسَفُونَا ٱنتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ فَأَغْرَقْنَـٰهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ Qur’an Az-Zukhruf (43:55)Falamma asafoona intaqamna minhum faaghraqnahum ajmaAAeena
Allah is patient, and gives many and many opportunities to the most hardened sinners for repentance. But at length comes a time when His justice is provoked, and the inevitable punishment follows.
Cf. vii. 136.