 Many times believers will regret their sin, but they don't repent of their sin. In other words, they feel bad for it, and they want God to remove the bad feeling that results from it, but they don't want to give up the behavior itself. They want to be freed from the consequences of sin, but not from the confines of sin. They want to be free from the penalty of sin, but they don't want to be free from the practice of sin. They say, God, give me relief in my mind and my emotions and in consequence, but I'm going to hang on to this just because I enjoy it so much, and I may come back to it from time to time. Know my friend, true repentance says, God, I align my thoughts with your thoughts about sin. God, I align my mind with your mind about sin, and I choose to reject that sin in all forms for all time, in all measures from now on. That is true repentance, and it goes deeper than our actions.