Grant that each individual sin is deserving of only finite punishment.
Given the Arminian doctrine of unlimited atonement, these sins are not the sins that keep us from God. They've been paid for on the cross. There's only one solitary sin that keeps individuals in hell--the refusal to accept Jesus. To so reject Jesus is to reject God himself, which is a sin of infinite gravity.
So hell is not a punishment for the various finite sins we commit in this life, but rather a punishment for the rejection of God himself.
Amyraldians can say something very similar to this.
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