Martin Luther wrote this to comfort a friend:

My faithful request and admonition is that you join our company and associate with us, who are real, great, and hard-boiled sinners. You must by no means make Christ to seem paltry and trifling to us, as though He could be our Helper only when we want to be rid from imaginary, nominal, and childish sins. No, no! That would not be good for us.

He must rather be a Savior and Redeemer from real, great, grievous and damnable transgressions and iniquities, yes, from the very greatest and most shocking sins — to be brief, from all sins added together in a grand total.

You want to be a superficial sinner and, accordingly, expect to have in Christ a superficial Savior. You will have to get used to the belief that Christ is a real Savior and you are a real sinner. For God is neither jesting nor dealing in imaginary affairs, but He was greatly and most assuredly in earnest when He sent His own Son into the world and sacrificed Him for our sakes.