Evading a punishment is pretty universally seen as a crime, not sure why you'd think otherwise.
To quote Wikipedia "In some other places like Germany and a number of other countries, it is considered human nature to want to escape from a prison and it is considered as a violation of the right of freedom, so escape is not penalized in itself (in the absence of other factors such as threats of violence, actual violence, or property damage)."
Either way, the person I was responding to did not say it was a natural desire, they only said it was “not wrong”.