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.
(..) Every man has his own truth. And Svoboda had his own truth? What's wrong, Bologa? Were you ashamed to come earlier between us? Ashamed? By what? We know you voted for the death punishment. And? I don't have to justify to no one but my conscience. And your conscience is rested? (..)1965 Forest of the Hanged