Huh! The saint is just that; repentant! I don't understand what you mean, but a verse is in order:
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
If God had forgiven sinners without an atonement they might have thought little of transgression, but now that pardon comes to them through the bitter griefs of their Redeemer they cannot but see it to be an exceeding great evil. When we look to Jesus dying on the cross we end our dalliance with sin, and utterly abhor the cause of so great suffering to so dear a Saviour. Every wound of Jesus is an argument against sin. We never know the full evil of our iniquities till we see what it cost the Redeemer to put them away.Why do I repent even today when I am saved. Well, the truly saved have learned to hate their sin for they see it for exactly what it is; they see what it cost the Redemmer to put [it] away.
Isaiah 52:14 His visage was marred more than any man...It is Eternally healthy for a man to confess his crimes to God an fall upon his face before Him! Those who perservere will do so. Would you be suggesting that a man can be saved and then continue on in his former state of sin until the day he dies?