If indulging in something permitted-but-excessive isn’t formally forbidden, why is any punishment attach to it at all?
Q. Why is there punishment for taavos heter, if so why not make it prohibited We are not supposed to be better than Hashem’s way.
Excellent question, and the answer is in the source itself. I have only seen any kind of punishment mentioned for “taavot heter” in books of divrei chassidut (e.g. Sefer Hassidim, Sefer HaRoke’ch), but not in mainstream Judaism of Chazal, rishonim and achronim, which see the physical desires as something G-dly and it’s not proper, nor even “extra credit” to “overcome” them. They are meant to be directed and practiced in the right time, place and amount. As one rebbe once said, if you try and break your yetzer, you will have two!
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