One writer said, ”Confession creates peace. Reading from that psalm 32 that I read at the outset in the New Century Version, ”Happy is the person whose sins are forgiven, whose wrongs are pardoned.” He goes on to say, ”if my children violate one of my standards or disobey a rule, I don’t disown them, I don’t kick them out of the house or tell them to change their last name. But I do expect them to be honest and apologize. …until they do the tenderness of our relationship will suffer…..the nature of the relationship won’t be altered, but the intimacy will, the same happens in our walk with God. Confession does not create a relationship with God, it simply nourishes it. If you are a believer, admission of sins does not alter your position before God, but it does enhance your peace with God.”(That is a quote from a devotional book written by a well known contemporary writer and I’m not sure I understand all he said there) Sin separates us from our God. That’s what the Bible says.