True, but I think if you take out the line "to himself" it works for Mormonism. The question of whether god made the law or whether god is just following a eternal law is a little fuzzy in Mormon circles, but I think most would say that god is the one who made the rules and hence it is from his punishment that we need to be saved. In that respect, it's a little too similar to an abusive relationship to be comfortable.

In many religious philosophies, God is the one who created "the law" which mankind is supposed to live by, so by that reasoning, he's the one who created the problem in the first place. Without him creating laws that would separate people from their salvation, there would be no need to save them from their loss of salvation.