Blessings of God are always good

35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.  36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.  37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.  38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.  39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.  40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.  41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.  42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.  43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses (Genesis 30:35-43).

     So Jacob really made out on this deal.  But Laban really has no one to blame but himself in many respects.  Laban really used Jacob and in the end Laban paid a price for this.  This is really a story of deceit and trickery and there are always consequences for sin.  There is no such thing as benign sin.  And while both men were less than honest at times, Jacob certainly put his heart and soul into earning the marriage of Leah and Rachel. Jacob, even in his imperfection, was blessed by God, and the blessings of God are always good.