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Given that someone who has been converted to Christ may commit murder and fornication, and Scripture says that murderers and fornicators have no place in the kingdom of heaven, you have posited that the believer will repent, without fail. This amounts to believing that the Christian does not have free will, an idea that you rejected earlier. If the person is free to sin (murder, adultery, fornication) then he is free to not repent. That is, if the Holy Spirit does not prevent the free exercise of the will in committing the first sin, there is no reason to expect that the Holy Spirit will prevent the free exercise of the will in the second case.

The believer is a new creation in Christ ... with a revived spiritual nature (i.e. the life of God).
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The believer has been made a child of God.
Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

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Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
The believer will manifest the evidence of his/her new nature in Christ, though not always consistently.

For he/she is yet a child in Christ, ... not fully mature, ... not fully Christlike in his/her behaviour.

When we, His children, sin against Him, ... He will forgive us.
1 John 2:12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
But the spiritual child grows in his/her faith, ... much like our physical children grow into physical, mental, and emotional maturity.
Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
God has promised to persevere with us until we have achieved the christian maturity He desires for us.
Philippians 1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
And so ... we may slip ... but we will not stay down ... for God lifts us up and sets us back on our way.

He will chastise, ... and even chasten us ... so that we will be moved to repentence.
Hebrews 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
As believers, ... we have opened our hearts to the love of God.

And the love of God moves us to show our love for Him in our obedience to Him.
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
That same love will move us ... to repentence for those wrongs which we commit as His children.
Romans 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance ?