True believers are sorrowful when they sin even in the slightest way whether by attitude or actions. They hate their sin and want to be cleansed of it.
Those who say they are Christians but justify their sin have not been born-again.
Hebrews 12:5-8
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are punished by Him;
6 For whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”
7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
A true believer is miserable in their sin and eventually will confess it to be cleansed and turn from it.
1 John 3:8-10
"… 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.…"
Because God loves His children He will correct us.
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