God wants it to be very clear that you can’t earn His love, mercy, or forgiveness through good behavior. He has intentionally trapped you in a hopeless situation by giving you a bent for evil that He knows you cannot overcome on your own. This is because He wants you to come to Him not as His peer or as some perfect angel, but as a desperate wreck who has nothing good without Him. God wants to be your Savior, not your buddy. He wants to be the Father that you need to take care of you in life, not some religious icon that you set on a shelf and forget about. He wants to be your C.O., not your subordinate. God really wants a relationship with you, but only if it is one in which He is the kind and generous King while you are the devoted servant. He has no use for what we humans call a functional relationship. He wants dysfunctional—where you are the creature with endless needs and He is the Creator who delights in taking care of you. God wants you to see yourself as totally dependent on Him and helpless to do anything without Him.