Deuteronómio 7:10 Cábala: The Beginning & Chesed LeAvraham

11. Hod is judgment tempered with kindness; for example, sometimes the wicked prosper in this world for their few virtues, to ultimately be destroyed in the coming world, as scripture states,¹⁴Deuteronomy 7:10; Talmud Bavli, Yoma 86, Kiddushin 49-50 “He pays his enemy up front to destroy him,” – the seemingly positive being ultimately negative. Yesod is the median conduct between Netzach and Hod, tempered by both, but inclining more toward judgment than kindness.¹⁵Likkutei HaGRA, Sifra D’Tzniuta – Sod HaTzimtzum pg. 38-39 The world is generally conducted through this faculty.

Thus, since this is the case, when mitzvot and good deeds performed by people ascend upwards, although the mitzvot are physical actions, they contain life. Just as the body performs the physical act of the mitzvah, the life-force within a person acts within the mitzvah. The amount of life in the mitzvah corresponds to the life-force of the person performing it. If the person is wicked, and their soul is spiritually excised with little connection to the Or Ein Sof due to its closeness to the absence of life (death), then their mitzvah contains little light and life, almost incapable of ascending to the true world of reward. Such people are paid in this world, as the verse says, "He repays His enemies..." (Deuteronomy 7:10).