Man has regrets, especially when he lashes out at God and then realizes he has bitten the and that feeds him. God asked a most interesting question when challenging man’s opinion of Him. He said “Am I a man that I should repent?” It was of course rhetorical. He is not just a man. He is Creator, Provider, Sustainer and the dearest Friend you will ever know. He is love, He is perfect and He is pure. Man is not. When Adam chose to sin after the similitude of Eve he became unclean, impure and rebellious. He regretted his choice almost immediately. He attempted to hide from the consequences of his sin. And yet in hiding he demonstrated the consequences of his sin; separation from the presence of God. When we sin, transgress God’s law, we regret it only because there are consequences we do not desire to confront. When there is no consequence there is no regret.
God has no regrets, for He, knowing the end from the beginning, set in His plan every imaginable or possible outcome with one desires. God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, yet some perish. It is the goodness of God that leads men to repent, yet some do not repent. For the Scripture says God is not a man that he should repent. Nor is man a god that he should not.