For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young. I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. Ezekiel 36:9-11
What a wonderful God is this God, the only God there is. Long-suffering. Willing to suffer. Forgiving. Merciful. It is the kindness of God that should lead us to repentance. That’s the way it is supposed to work.
