All that grief gets him to stop maybe for a while. But it is not long before he is back. Because there is a law, a principle of sin and death. And that principle includes this, that sin has a power to hold in its grips. That is true of addiction, but that is true, as I said, of all sin.
Sin is a power.
Sin is a mighty, strong power. That law of sin and death is operative. Do not say that that may apply to that person or to that other person. No, it applies to sin. It applies to us.