Jesus to be sin for us, and punished him for us, and he did that so that he could be merciful to us, and without that sacrifice, there remains as it says in John 3 36, no option except that the wrath, the anger of God abides on us, he visits iniquity, and notice the way that is put at the end of verse seven, visiting the iniquity, it's an active verb, in other words, he's getting up, he gets into action, he intervenes, and he aggressively punishes sin, he visits the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and someone has merely say, well, it's like the sins of drunkenness or abuse kind of being passed down the habits of family, get passed down from one generation to another, and they suffer the consequences of their own actions, that God just kind of lets it happen, he steps back because they would say, well, it's just free will, and that's kind of partly true, but this passage goes a big step beyond that, it's not just laws of nature outside of his control, notice here, he doesn't say he lets generations bear the consequences for their actions, that's biblical, but he says more than that here, he says, he does it,