The good things in life, the things from which we derive pleasure, are not objectively good. Our enjoyment of them depends on how our soul is receptive to their goodness.
Pleasure, for the most part, derives from the fulfillment of a need; to feel the pleasure, we must first feel the need.
Otherwise, life turns into an ever-escalating cycle of suffering, and even more than that, a growing lack of enjoyment in life.
A person to whom God has granted wealth and honor, whose worldly desires are satisfied, finds that the more he pursues them, the less he enjoys and appreciates these assets.
The more he exploits them, the more he destroys the vitality they contain, the good that is hidden in them, and their ability to give him pleasure.
Such a person develops an increasing tendency toward perversion in everything, in an attempt to reach extremes where he can still build a life that contains good and bad so that he might find some meaning and some enjoyment amid all the emptiness.
Such a person may even be led to repent, out of dread of the emptiness of evil, which is self-destructive.
—Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz