I was going to pray for a bicycle but God doesn't work that way so I stole a bicycle and prayed for forgiveness.
Unfortunately, that is the mindset of some of the seemingly religious folks I've come across. Seems to be the reason we had "confession" on Saturdays when I was a Catholic girl. It was expected that we all had horrible things to confess. In fact it seemed almost a sin if you didn't go to confession to confess something. (I would make stuff up, so I would at least have something to say in the confessional.)