The market, absent of force and fraud, is a shorthand term for a group of individuals cooperating in the pursuit of various goals. Striving after different values, working to realize divergent plans, possessed of diverse stores of knowledge, these individuals go their chosen ways, trading only when it is to mutual advantage. In short, the system that spins out of the actions of free human beings offers them the only peaceful, efficient way to deal with an uncertain future. Government intervention, when it comes down to it, is the power of the gun. It is brute force, pure and simple.
Motives here are irrelevant.
Whether the government is full of benevolent bureaucrats or pernicious politicians is of no consequence. If a seller charges more than the government-imposed price ceiling allows, he will be jailed or deprived of his property. The same fate befalls anyone who violates government edicts. The opportunities of the market participants to make and attempt to realize their plans have been stymied. The system that makes the harmonizing of divergent plans possible has been distorted into one of inevitable clash due to government distribution.