Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.) adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) noun (common) (futsuumeishi) nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
paying for one's mistakes
getting one's just deserts
suffering the consequences (of one's own actions)
reap what you sow
Translations
a taste of one's own medicine〔他人に味わわせたのと同種の不愉快を報復・成り行き・教育的罰などで自分が味わうはめになること。〕
divine justice
well-earned punishment
what you asked for
As a man sows, so shall he reap.〔ことわざ〕
One gets what one deserves.
You've made your bed and you must lie on it.〔ことわざ〕