Why was Abraham not punished for looking at Sodom whilst it was burning in Genesis 19:27?

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After Lot had been told to vacate Sodom and escape its judgement his wife is said to have looked back at the burning city and was turned into a pillar of salt

Genesis 19:23-26 NIV

23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

It seems more or less the same time that Abraham looked at Sodom whilst it was burning but nothing happens to him

27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

Why was Abraham not punished?