In this thesis, I will answer the question on whether one can forgive while punishing her wrongdoer. I will create an account of forgiveness and punishment which I find to be the most accurate in order to determine whether or not forgiveness and punishment are compatible. Discovering this relationship will assist us in better understanding our human condition, revealing how we ought to behave after wrongdoing, and can have policy implications. In order to discover the compatibility or incompatibility between forgiveness and punishment, I will propose a new theory of forgiveness, in which both emotion and action play equal roles in the process of forgiveness. Unlike Jeffrie G. Murphy and Leo Zaibert, who solely focus on either emotion or action, I believe that the two are both essential to forgiving and further add constructive and conditional elements of forgiveness. After defending my account of forgiveness, I will move into defining punishment, both criminal and social, in order to determine whether punishment is compatible with forgiveness. Finally, I will analyze the possible compatibility or incompatibility forgiveness and punishment to determine whether one can forgive while continuing to punish or endorse punishment or if one must forgo punishment to forgive properly
