Or it could be that forgiveness is like love, you can only realize it in measure of how you have given it.
Yet not with God. God's forgiveness is complete. Without variation. Our forgiveness is not. I can forgive someone. Truly forgive them. Then they do something or say something and what I truly forgave and released them from will flood back into my memory banks and I may experience some of the same feelings as before and have to forgive all over again. God forgives and forgets. Their sins and iniquities I will remember no more. As far as the east is from the west. THAT is forgiveness!