Augustine taught that all people seek happiness, and they attach themselves to things they believe will make them happy. That attachment is experienced as love. The main human problem, however, is that, because of sin, we misidentify what will make us happy. As we have discussed before, the result is disordered loves—loves “out of order.” We either love what we ought not to love, or we fail to love what we ought to love, or we love more what we should love less, or love less what we should love more.309
