The short answer is: "God's wrath and punishment." However, as we covered before, "His wrath and punishment" is pretty severe. The ultimate consequence of sin is death. And that's not just any death; it's eternal death, forever death, forever-separated-from-God-and-all-that-is-good death.
Most people aren't comfortable saying we DESERVE God's wrath and punishment. But that's what it means to go against God's will; it means to deserve the consequences of going against God's will.
God wants to bless us through the ordered creation He made, but that includes the Commandments. Instead, we want to go a different way and so we deny ourselves the blessing. Again, when we sin we choose the consequences of sin.
And the fact that death is the ultimate consequence of sin makes sense, too. God is the Author and Source of life. (That's what it really means to be God; God is the Creator.) To choose to separate ourselves from the Author and Source of life is to separate ourselves from life. Is it any wonder that trying to live that way means to die?
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