How to reword this: repeated back on him?

Question

I don't know how to reword this:

Along the way, we see how the faults Jacob made earlier in life are repeated back on him.

I know

repeated back on him

doesn't sound correct, but I don't know what to replace it with.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

first of all, it's "the mistakes" he made — one doesn't make faults

• are revisited upon him
• return upon him
• come back to bite him in the [tuchus]
• come back to haunt him
• come home to roost
• beat a path back to his door [a play on "if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door"]

Answer 2

How about "...we see how Jacob repeats the mistakes he made earlier in life?"

Answer 3

we see how the faults Jacob made earlier in his life begin to bleed back into his existence, recurring endlessly like an abyss in trepidation, an inflatable nightmare; draining through fading, whispered telephone conversations in the winter drear.