Deliver Us

So, because it seems like a direct command from God these days, I've started reading the book of Nehemiah. I've been getting a lot out of it and I'm almost finished, but something stuck out to me in a big way just now.
I'm reading in chapter 9 where the Israelites are confessing their sins and looking back on what has happened in the past between them and God. It's a pretty long reflection that involves God's people working for Him and God's people turning their backs on Him. One specific part in the middle caught my attention and made me realize how back-and-forth we are with God but how He is entirely faithful and forgiving:

They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore You did not desert them, even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, 'This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,' or when they committed awful blasphemies...They committed awful blasphemies . so You handed them over to their enemies, who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers, who rescued them from the hand of their enemies. But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies so that they rules over them. And when they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and in Your compassion You delivered them time after time.

God puts up with a lot of crap from us. Sorry, that's the best way I can think to put it from my perspective. We are so wishy-washy. One day we claim to love and follow Him, and the next we've turned our backs to worship material possessions and people. But God is faithful, persistent and patient. We're going to turn our backs on Him many more times before we die, and He will never let go of us. I read this passage and am amazed by how He is so unnecessarily true to us. He has every right to turn His back on us every day, but He pursues us because He knows we will continue to need Him and turn to Him.
Nehemiah sets a phenomenal example as a leader: he is constantly in prayer and in action for God. He knows that the two go hand in hand. He leads his people on, but he helps them understand that they are so far beyond blessed to have a God who is constantly willing to forgive them. It's the same for us today. Sometimes we make mistakes and sometimes we deliberately go against what He wants for us, and no matter what, when we cry out to Him to save us, He comes to our rescue.