paining

verb

1. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.“The wound pained him.”
2. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.“It pains me to say that I must let you go.”
3. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.