It was Hobbes' belief that even an inefficient government was better than no government at all. Even more, we can count on the things we make. Nature is unpredictable, unreliable, and unruly. For example, human houses protect us from hostile climates. To reverse a statement made by Ralph Waldo Emerson, for Hobbes, that which is built is better than that which builds.
Artificial institutions are better than natural human tendencies.
The state is better than human nature. Tables are better than, more useful than trees. Civilization is opposed to and better than freedom. Safety is more important than happiness. For Hobbes, order is found in neither human nor non-human nature.