1Sam. 12:22 For the sake of His great name, the LORD will never abandon His people, seeing that the LORD undertook to make you His people.
Saul’s dynasty begins and will end with him, not because he is disobedient, but because he refuses to believe that God loves him and would never abandon him.
“A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.” Henri Nouwen