So you are rewarded for repenting to Allah. The Prophet (saw) said: Fear Allah wherever you are and follow up a bad deed with a good deed, Indeed the Good deed wipes away the bad. The Prophet says: “Regret is repentance.” [Sunan Ibn Majah]. Regret is essential in showing sincerity. And so, Allah wants us to come back to Him and never give up. And He says: “O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. Do NOT delay tawbah. So how do we you resolve this issue?
However, it should not be at the expense of causing more harm.
The aim of repentance is not to cause more harm, it is to rectify the situation. 372 and Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 551). Just stop. Allah named Himself that Oft-Forgiving, The Hider of Faults, The Acceptor of Repentance… for us! This Hadith clearly states that the major sins are excluded. This returning cannot be done except by Allah's guidance to the Straight Path. So the question remains how do you do Salat Al Tawbah (the prayer of repentance)? How beautiful and powerful is that?
O son of Adam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as it. And this is a grave error. If this is what you’re thinking, then Please Stop This Line of Thinking NOW! If you’ve spoken badly/unjustly against someone, then rectify what you said and seek forgiveness. Tawbah is the return of the servant to Allah. One of Allah’s Names is An-Nur (The Light); how can we see The Light or appreciate The Light if we’re drowning in so much darkness…? [At-Tirmidhi]. You have to be sincerely repentant. The conditions or ways to seek sincere Taubah or Repentance from the Merciful Lord are: One is aware that he has sinned, and feels sorry and ashamed at his sin. I speak from my own experience, So we make Tawbah expecting that Allah will not forgive us. Make a firm resolution to never return to the sin. Allah forgives us, but what about the other people we’ve damaged? Now, there are a few points to remember here. So bring it!Suffocate the sin with good deeds and do not let it suffocate you. And that is the ‘Ran’ which Allah mentioned: ‘Nay, but on their hearts is the Ran which they used to earn.’”[Jami’ at-Tirmidhi]. 4. Stop immediately. One of the major obstacles to one’s spiritual productivity is falling into sin. These are the action points that you need to do immediately-, Then he recited this verse: ‘And those who, when they have committed Faahishah (illegal sexual intercourse) or wronged themselves with evil, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their sins; — and none can forgive sins but Allah — and do not persist in what (wrong) they have done, while they know’ (Qur’an 3:135).” [, Now, one last point, if the sin involves transgressing against someone else, then you have to bring them their right back and/or seek their forgiveness. It’s important that we have good expectations of our creator.