God loves us just the way we are, but He refuses to leave us that way, because He wants us to become just like Jesus. It is God’s ultimate intention for us to be conformed into the image of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. When we get saved, we are placed in Christ and given a brand new, true, eternal identity. Once we learn to live through the lenses of that new identity, then we are ready to confront and deal with our sinful souls. God is still in the process of transforming our souls. God is the potter we are the clay. Only God can change us, we can never change ourselves, a pig is a pig.