God had had David anointed, had given him riches and every variety of material goods, but all this had not been enough for him, and despising the divine law, he had carried off another man’s wife.
It was a serious sin, yet God forgave him because David acknowledged his guilt and humbly confessed: “I have sinned against the Lord” (ib. 13). But he still had to pay the penalty for it: “the child that is born to you shall die” (ib. 14).
God in his mercy forgives the sinner who acknowledges his guilt, and in that same mercy punishes him so that he may not sin again.
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