Think of it in spiritual terms: the worst form of judgment on this side of heaven is to be left to your own devices, lost in sin—for God not to even bother to intervene. That is the scene in Romans 1:24, where the Bible says that “God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity” (NASB 1995). People who ignore the conviction of the Spirit are left stuck in the muck of their love for sin. In contrast, people who live with conviction go farther, grow faster, and get results more than those who live without conviction, because they are living for something bigger than themselves.
