David actually broke all 10 of the Commandments of God! How could God consider David "a man after His own heart"? It is through repentance! Repentance and God’s ultimate forgiveness restores our right relationship with God, and it is ultimately that right relationship with God which must be our goal in this life. The depth of David’s sin(s) reminds us that other than the total rejection of God and His power through which He works with us, the Holy Spirit, there is no sin so great that God cannot forgive.