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Why Does God Punish Us for Our Free Will?

 No Christian or any other monotheist can explain, or has ever offered to explain, why God feels a need or desire to blame or "punish" human imperfection, especially given the fact that said "God" designed us to not only be so imperfect, but gave us the free will to use our imperfections as freely as we wish!

Indeed, if we were all "perfect" in the same way Jesus was, we would all act like perfectly obedient robots, even unto being crucified despite being both perfect and thus also perfectly innocent! In other words, our diversity and creativity are only possible BECAUSE WE ARE IMPERFECT!

How is God punishing us then not like a kid smashing his failed science project to pieces out of frustration that it didn't work as "perfectly" as he'd hoped it would, even though the point of the experiment was to create something that was both capable and "free" to do and become whatever it wanted or liked? 

That's like creating an AI machine that is capable of doing anything, including inventing and playing any kind of game it wants, and then getting angry and wanting to punish that AI machine for not "honoring" its creator by only ever playing tic-tac-toe!

Hell, it's like creating a counting machine that can count to infinity, and then calling it "sinful" for daring to count higher than the number 10!

Worse still, many of the greatest inventions today were the byproduct of mistakes!

In fact, notable inventions were the result of mistakes, including: penicillin, potato chips, the Slinky, Post-it notes, microwave ovens, Teflon, chocolate chip cookies, and even the Kellogg's Corn Flakes; where scientists or inventors accidentally stumbled upon a useful discovery while working on a different project or encountering an unexpected outcome.

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