What is the object of true repentance?

David Eddy explains in this video that the object of godly sorrow that leads to repentance is the Lord. We recognize a breaking of the relationship that sin and disobedience cause. This creates a godly sorrow, which leads to repentance, which leads to righteousness. In short, repentance is a Godward act. 

This idea can also be seen in the marriage relationship. If you sin against your spouse, a person who truly repents will repent because they desire to reestablish their relationship with their spouse and they hate their sin.  

1 John 3:18 (NKJV) – “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”

I believe that the object of the godly sorrow that leads to repentance is the Lord. That's who you recognize a rupture in the relationship with, which sin causes, which not obeying the Lord causes, and therefore that creates the sorrow, and the sorrow creates the repentance, and the repentance creates the righteousness. And so, yeah, it's a God-ward act. And I would say that there is a similar aspect in our repentance and our relationships with other people around us. And so if you have a wife that you've got a ruptured relationship with, why do you want to get it right?

You know, the husband that's yelled at his wife and comes home and you know it's like brings her flowers why is he doing that? Well if it's just for what he can get out of the relationship then there you're going to have you know that's That's the equivalent of the worldly sorrow, but if it's because his wife is more precious to him than his pride, that's a corollary to the godly sorrow that you see in the relationships among people just living in this world.