Part 4 probably isn’t hard. Heat happened, you sinned, here was an unhappy result. You might be still smarting from it. “What is the effect of your behavior?”

The challenge here is to honestly and humbly ask others what the consequences of your sin meant to them. In some cases, our sin is self-destructive; it doesn’t directly affect others. But often, it is against others, and humility demands that we inquire. It may mean taking it like a man (or a woman): the truth of how our sins have affected those we love may be hard to hear. But remember Psalm 141:5,

Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.

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