A man came to me years ago distressed over his marriage. He had been unfaithful to his wife and she had discovered it. They were trying to put their marriage back together again and I was helping them. At the close of our initial conversation he told me that he had just bought his wife an expensive diamond ring for Christmas. And he wondered if he should give it to her. I answered him, “No, not under any circumstances.”
If he had tried to give his wife that ring for Christmas she would have concluded that he was trying to buy her off and that he had no idea of the hurt she was going through.
We can’t buy God off either. He forgives us only when we are genuinely sorry for our sins and repent of them.