If a person feels that his troubles are the result of bad things he has done, then we might tell him, without being judgmental, that it is a comfort to know what is recorded at 1 John 2: 1, 2 and Psalm 103: 11 - 14.
Jāņa vēstules 2. nodaļas 1. un 2. pants un 103. psalma 11. — 14. pants.