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To think, or contemplate, is a choice in itself. There is the choice to entertain evil thoughts, instead of dismiss them. That's the first step down a dark path. You cannot make that choice and expect it not to have consequences. At first, they may not be noticeable, because the initial consequences take place within a person's heart. I call this watering weeds. As the weed grows through successive choices to water, it will eventually bare evil fruit. If we wish to protect our heart, we can not choose to delight in such thoughts. If one feels hate, and waters it through his thoughts, it will grow. The seed may not have been planted by choice, but growing it is. Christ understood this in His teachings.

Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Ephesians 2:3
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

James 4:4
You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God

Romans 8;5
5Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

If you check my about page, you'll see I'm hoping to publish a book. It's a Christian novel, and the theme is about consequences of choice. It was interesting to write, because these characters in my head became so real! I'd sit there and contemplate the thoughts going through their heads, and whether they delighted in them, or resisted. Talk about schizophrenia! My husband would walk in and try to tell me something, and I'd be like, "Hush! I'm arguing with myself!" Which, I wasn't really arguing with myself, but the conflict of my character's thought was playing out in my head. Writing it was a great experience though! It was a side of me I didn't know existed.