Best translation for: “Frequent abuse leads to restrictions”? My Google-fu and Cantonese brain selected these translations for “frequent abuse leads to restrictions”/“you abuse it, you lose it”:


濫用多就邀請限制 (lànyòng duō jiù yāoqǐng xiànzhì) frequent abuse invites restrictions
濫用請對策 (lànyòng qǐng duìcè) abuse leads to countermeasures


(Basically, I try to find the combination of words that gives the most hits on Google and makes sense to me, a Cantonese speaker.)

It’s supposed to come off in an admonishing/I-told-you-so kind of way. The idea is that frequent abuse has motivated the establishment of stricter measures (like a child taking too often from the cookie jar, resulting in the jar going under lock and key).

Is there a an equivalent with more brevity? An equivalent that is more standard? I get a lot of characters for translations from English, but I don’t really have a good grasp of the nuances.
濫用 is only one of many aspects of abuse. Abuse is inappropriate way to use something. When you get the meaning, you are free from fixed expressions. Say, 愛用宜守規，違者得限制。