"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
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> It was nothing complex.
> The sentence was that "If you can not abide by the rules, there will be
consquences."

"Cause and effect" is in fact usually rendered as
原因と結果

For your sentence, I would recommend rewording consequences into penalties.

My totally non-native speaker idea would be something like
ルールが守れない者には罰に処する　(katai)
ルールが守れない人には罰[とみなす・にする] (somewhat less katai)

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