This struggle is ancient.

After God delivered Israel from slavery, they began romanticizing Egypt.

They forgot the whips and remembered the food.

They cried out in the wilderness:

“We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost…” (Numbers 11:5)

They were free, but they longed for what once enslaved them.

How human.

How familiar.

We do this with sin.

We remember the excitement but forget the bondage.
We remember the taste but forget the poison.

Sin often looks better in hindsight because memory edits out consequences.