He keeps playing football despite all his injuries. I guess he's a 'glutton/sucker for punishment'. [=he is attracted to pain, suffering, difficulty, etc.]
These hiking boots are tough enough to take any amount of 'punishment'. [=the boots will not be ruined even if they are used very roughly]
The 'punishments' that the government has inflicted/imposed on the protesters are severe and unjust.
(..) I made a deal for you to keep your ungrateful head on your ungrateful neck a little while longer. The opportunity to live and die at the Wall as punishment for a crime I did not commit? You threw your life away. You threw it away. It's not a joke. You understand that, don't you? I couldn't-- (..)2014 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: Mockingbird Season: 4 Episode 7