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Morality only comes from religion, else, it is not morality, it is opinion.

Morals assume the condition that what is held to as a belief, it is inviolate. Only something from God can be that.

There may be some small cases of where that which is inviolate can be broken, but only to the idea of that event being tragic, such as who gets thrown off the lifeboat when there is only food for one less person. The tragedy is fewer people can survive longer, but an innocent has to die in order for that to happen.

So, laws are what society declares to be inviolate in moral principle. That does not mean the singular event cannot escape punishment, the inviolate moral rule is still in effect.

If what you mean, though, is that a series of moral laws that are in effect do NOT make a population moral acting, then you are right. People only obey laws for fear of punishment or by agreement, but never all the people all the time, and never in the mind and heart 100% in any of those cases, the human mind may see the logic in obeying, but there will always be the tempation to break the law, either in word or deed.

That reality, that men will always have a thought or word that is against that moral code in idea, that shows that the precense of the law/moral code, did NOTHING to change the man inhis nature. That is why there needs to be laws, not becaue they make men moral, but because they define what is right and what is wrong.