Forgiveness for the Sinner

2Corinthians 2:5-11
5If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you, to some extent—not to put it too severely. 6The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient for him. 7Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. 9The reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

Kind of extrapolating from this, the thought I believe the H.S. was laying on me was that we need to forgive to bring glory to God, even if we don't want to. It increases God's Kingdom (grows us and frees the other person) . For me, this makes it easier to forgive, because I'm better motivated to grow His kingdom than to forgive someone that perhaps I don't even like or want to like.