Things change when you find out someone you love has slipped into a sin. Especially someone in the family, someone you consider part of the family or someone you feel responsible for. An oppressive weight settles on you, presumably because of your care for and connection to that individual.
An oppressive weight it is. The dark feelings haunt as you understand that you are no better. Maybe you've been down that road yourself and know the end result(s). If you dwell on it, it becomes too oppressive to handle any more.
It certainly helps to remember that the Lord Jesus Christ handled not just one sin like that, but the entire crushing lot of them from absolutely everyone over billions of lifetimes and more to come.
"Hero" is too small of a word. Strongman of the Universe would be better as long as it acknowledges His deity. Understanding what He did for everyone in bearing the oppressive weight of all sin is absolutely beyond comprehension. Only an inifinitely powerful God could do it.
"They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born--that He has done it [that it is finished]!" Psalm 22:31
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