Mercy is because He sees your sin sick.

Knowing this,(1Timothy 1:9)the law (prescriptive usage) ( I would imagine "How to live on God's earth") This law is not for those who live by the law. The law is for the lawbreakers. Medicine is a part of the healing process by a doctor. The lawbreaker is considered rebellious. God's word gives a different view. The construct of God's word exposes the condition. The symptoms are hard to see sometimes. Sickness in the body.Sickness in mind. A malfunctioning inability to obey the social dictates of society is a sickness. The simple truth is breaking God's word is a path to trouble. Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. The light of the body is the eye. If the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness? We can see an example in the television shows of a murder mystery. A spouse commits adultery. Now wanting to be with the devil's cheese, they don't want to lose a life's work of assets. They accept a plan of murder on the inside of themselves. I'm describing the consequences of covenant-breaking. The person of pledged lifelong love is now the target. A wrong spirit has moved in. The law catches the spouse. The law is for the lawbreaker. 1 John 5:10 He that believes on the son of God has the wittness in himself:he that believes not God has made him (God)a liar;because he believed not the record that God gave of His son. Matthew 4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.