When they continue to sin, they are inviting God's loving chastening and are asking for much sorrow and loss. Because they have the benefit of the indwelling Holy Spirit and a knowledge of God's will through the Scriptures, they feel more wretched in their backslidden state than those who have not accepted the Savior. Every Christian who has lived for a time with unconfessed sin knows what I'm talking about. To avoid such heartache and to be a happy Christian, we must seek to know God's will through Bible study and prayer. But to trust and obey.
Sin causes the cup of joy to spring a leak.