Just stop it. Stop lying to yourself and to God.
Cancel this emotional performance!
You haven't truly changed your mind about drinking, smoking, sex outside marriage, cursing, greed, overeating, lying, gossip, or any of the sins that you enjoy or see nothing wrong with. You still love your sin—and let's be honest, you haven't made any plans to stop sinning because you still use the Grace of God as a get out of jail free card.
So why keep pretending?
All you're doing is deceiving yourself because God is not fooled. He knows your heart, remember? All you're doing is wasting your time with empty words. You're certainly not fooling God with vain repentance that misses the mark entirely.
Repentance is not the emotional performance of repetitive, disingenuous apologies.
True repentance is the discipline of changing your mind once you receive the revelation that a particular belief is a lie. The moment you finally understand clearly that a "truth" you've held dear and lived by is actually false, you face a critical decision.
Your beliefs are the roots of your behavior—this is revelation of the Holy Spirit.
You must stop believing that lie and accept it for what it is. Moving forward, you choose to deal with it as the deception it always was, not the truth you thought it to be. That is repentance.
If you still think it's okay to drink, have sex outside marriage, lie, spread gossip, steal, be double minded, a hypocrite, lazy, selfish, indulge in gluttony, etc., then it's better to start at the beginning of the process. Instead of saying, "God, I repent for these things" when you're not truly repentant, try this honest approach: "God, I want to repent, but if I don't see anything wrong with this behavior, how can I? Help me understand and come to believe this is truly the sin You've shown me it is. Help me see that You're really not pleased with this, so I can change my mind to align with the mind of Christ within me. Give me a heart that loves what You love and hates what You hate." That's what genuine repentance looks like—and what we should be doing moving forward.