Wow, people are upset at me simply for the reason that I am way too busy to read the entire webcomic. The fact that the titles are not intuitive does not help things. With this kind of attitude, no wonder you all do not get new blood every once in a while.

On a more serious note, yes. Belkar deserve to have that punishment and maybe Haley was justified to leave him behind. But it does not change two facts:

1.) Belkar is a valuable asset in the past and will prove himself during the thieves guild attack.

2.) Haley is a poor leader in the fact that she does not try to restrain Belkar or anything despite his well known hatred of small orange beings. It also did not help that the Oracle was escalating the situation by mocking Belkar and Haley did not do anything to stop the Oracle.