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Imam Ibn Qiyam Jawzi - rahiimahulaah - in his book "a da wa dawa" said that surely sins are like the seeds of fruits that always bear like fruits. Some of our pious predecessors have said that indeed punishment for committing a sin is that one is compelled to commit sin again, and the reward for committing a good deed is the guidance to follow that of yet another good deed. This singular action of doing a good deed bears a series of good deeds and in turn ones profits multiply. Similarly, bad deeds beget more bad deeds and begin to take shape and permanence in ones character. If a righteous person were to leave a good deed he would feel confined and constricted though he lives in a world of vast magnitude, much like a fish out of water. The soul finds rest only in the tides of moral decency. So it is the same for the sinner who can find comfort only in the familiarity and repetition of the old sin, he too feels the same sense of longing as the righteous person does. He sins not from the pleasure that is derived from it but to pacify the pain that being away from it brings.

Source: Gems and Jewels by Abdul Malik Mujahid