gee, I wish this hadn't copied in coloras it's hard to read in  "orange"

 

But essentially I think the writer was expressing that

when we long for attachments, (i.e. riches or material things); we then aren't innocent, in the sense that we gain  more strength of mind to keep ones soul coming back for that "attachment"....i.e. karmic lives again.  As thoughts are indeed "things" .

 

 

Think Buddhist understanding here......

The Wheel of Life continues through "attachments" to people, goods, and things of the  material world.

 

so the "unpunished" translation, OR the "not innocent" translation, means in a karmic or attached sense only.,

 

And certainly, at least to me anyway, to stay on the reincarnational, "Wheel of Life", is a punishment.to be avoided at all costs