"For You, Lord, are good and forgiving." Rabbi Pinchas HaKohen said that a scale is tipped here with sins on one side and merits on the other. What does the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He takes one note of debt and immediately puts it on the side of merit, as it is said, "And He extended loving-kindness to him" (Genesis 39:21). And the Rabbis say that He supports the scale of sins and raises it, and immediately the merits outweigh them, as it is said, "Who is a God like You, forgiving iniquity and remitting transgression" (Micah 7:18).