Galatians 2 "After we sin we are wise"

At the end of this chapter Paul talks about how we must die before we can truely live for God.  This reminded me of a song I heard on the radio yesterday that made me think.  The line in the song was "when I am blinded I can clearly see." I would like to take this idea even futher and think that, its not the sin but, the absense of God causes us to realise what we are doing and makes us wise to our sin. So many times, not all the time, I feel I understand I am sinning and that it is wrong immediately after I sin.  For some reason, I think it is because I hit rock bottom and sinned, I am far from God and He is showing me a way out.  Our problem: We don't listen.  The world tells us to only rely on ourselves and do it on your own, don't rely on God.