What if your chickens always come home to roost?

It isn't good or bad that chickens come home to roost, they just do.

You open the coop, the chickens leave to forage then, at nightfall, they come home to roost. What this agrarian analogy means is that there is a natural, predictable consequence for actions.

Malcom X and Rev. Wright both used the analogy and both underestimated the consequences. You might say that their chickens came home to roost.