Human beings have about values and ideas with a universal dimension. This way, friendship, love, solidarity and justice are common in all cultures, although each cultural tradition brings his own vision and its nuances in each of them. The desire of Justice arises from the need to live in a society where reigns a certain harmony, in which there are no situations of abuse and where a balance is imposed. The longing for Justice born the need to create laws, so human beings conform codes and regulations that serve to restore justice. However, human justice is by definition imperfect, because man is wrong on occasions to the judge, acting with prejudice and his vision of what is right or wrong depends on a social context and the limitations of the laws.
Divine justice as ideal
The limitations of human justice are within the scope of all religions there is a higher justice, divine justice. It's a belief based on faith and consists of the belief that a God, a Supreme institution or own order of nature imposes somehow true justice, without possible error and giving each one what it deserves. For Christians, divine justice will be effective in the Final judgment or last judgment, when every man will make accountability to God, so that God will judge each one according to what you have done in your life. The same idea is maintained in Islam, but the day of retribution expression is used instead of the Final judgement. For the ancient Egyptians there was also an idea of divine justice, because they believed in reincarnation and in the next life the deity known as Maat would be responsible for eradicating evil and impose the good. In the majority of religions, divine justice is presented as a force that counteracts the weaknesses and shortcomings of human justice. It is what happens with Hinduism, a polytheistic religion but with a key concept, the karma. The so-called law of karma governs all that has been created and is the entity or force responsible for establishing the true justice.
Criticism of the idea of divine justice
Since some philosophical approaches means that the concept of divine justice is not more than a human invention that arises as a logical consequence of believing in a Creator God or a spiritual higher-order entity. For these philosophers divine justice is a conceptual fiction and makes no sense from a strictly rational point of view.