What Wesley said.

I note that civil society and the whole legal structure it entails also provide a carrot and a stick, Pied. So does one's employer, if one is employed. So do our schools. So do our boyfriends and girlfriends, our parents, our partners, etc... So do political systems in their dealings with one another.

Do we need all of these to behave well? ;-) Should we do away with them all?

My impression is that everybody EXCEPT God provides a carrot and a stick, truth be told!