S-R-S cycle

sometimes, you wonder what if there is a limit of the mercy of God in our lives...
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Why do we keep a cycle of Sin -> Repentance -> Sin?
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Doesn't repentance involve turning away from sin?
Yet if sin is 'pleasurable' isn't it a natural thing, in human hedonistic tendencies to gravitate towards it?

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if we are new creations in Christ, the old has gone and the new has come
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“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” (Rom 7: 15)
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So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
(Romans 7: 21-25)

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We cannot do anything by our own effort, our own strength
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lest we keep falling into a cycle of sin
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“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,”(Rom 8:1)
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In my heart I want to be a person who does the will of God, who does what is pleasing to God
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yet so many times I fail...
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yet Jesus said, for every Lash on his back, for the nails that pieced him
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for every sin and wrongdoing I ever done
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“Father, forgive them.... For they know not what they are doing...”