What you are saying is true if one does teshuva from meahava, love where one wants to get close to Hashem and his sins further him away rather than doing teshuva from yirah, fear of punishment.
Ahava and Yirah have a connection. If you take the first two letters of ???? and ???? we get ???? and the last two letters we get ????. First we repent from fear and than after getting cleansed partially from our sins, get closer to Hashem. It says ???? ????? ?? ?’ ????? explains the Klei Yakar that after doing teshuva from fear ?? ???? ????? turning your purposeful sins to unintentional ones, so now do teshuva from love, by geting close to Hashem and turn them into benefits.
