Hamurabi's Code holds very little patience for wrong doers. Almost everything ends in death. If you accuse somebody and can't prove it, you die. If you steal from somebody and it can be proven, you die. The list is long of the things that you will die for having done. My over developed sense of justice loves this.
God's law is the same. If you do wrong, you die. But there's a clause that saves us. "For God so loved the world..." Probably the best known verse in the Bible. His justice is not tempered by his love, nor is his grace tempered by his justice. One creates a situation where we are convicted of our crimes. The other relieves us from ultimate judgement.
Hamurabi had it right. Mostly. He had no grace.
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