His wife obviously had longings for the sin of the place and looked back.

"Obviously"? What's funny about her outcome is it's not explicitly spelled out in the text what the reasoning was. It's just: she disobeyed the warnings, now God killed her!, argumentun ad verecundiam. You could imply any context from the text right at that point because the story is the first time Lot's wife is even mentioned.

The most I could gleam from that moment with context is that she had a little sympathy towards those suffering God's wrath, possibly the future son-in-laws whom ignored Lot's warning about needing to leave. Maybe she lived there her whole life and has remorse of leaving. If we include what happens afterwards, Lot's daughters raping him incestuously, it could imply genetically she was a bad influence.

Without context, it comes off as God being so hairtrigger that he would turn people into salt just for watching others being punished from said wrath :(

His wife obviously had longings for the sin of the place and looked back.

"Obviously"? What's funny about her outcome is it's not explicitly spelled out in the text what the reasoning was. It's just: she disobeyed the warnings, now God killed her!, argumentun ad verecundiam. You could imply any context from the text right at that point because the story is the first time Lot's wife is even mentioned.

The most I could gleam from that moment with context is that she had a little sympathy towards those suffering God's wrath, possibly the future son-in-laws whom ignored Lot's warning about needing to leave. If we include what happens afterwards, Lot's daughters raping him incestuously, it could imply genetically she was a bad influence.

Without context, it comes off as God being so hairtrigger that he would turn people into salt just for watching others being punished from said wrath :(