Some things for their true benefit. Not letting them visit the pillar alone--a thing that eats people. But within it is held their teammates and they wish to go to them, though it is dangerous.
But also unkind things. And those things are difficult. Severing their limbs, ripping out their eyes, torture, ending their lives.
These things are fixed by the Judges, even death. But that does not make them less painful to be bear.