God represents one more force to be feared. Anxiety is the natural state of human nature. This anxiety can be reduced, but not eliminated, by artificial laws, artificial conveniences, etc. 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.