Approval seeking and its dangers
Everybody wants to be accepted and approved of.
In fact, social rejection (or by inference, sense of rejection by God) can be just as jarring as physical pain.
There's a haunting scene in the gospels in which people respond negatively to Jesus, and while he has a theological explanation for the event at hand, he still asks Peter, "Will you leave also? (John 6:68)" To wish for acceptance is human and indeed.