“Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.” ’ (Dt 1:26–28)

As Moses is reviewing Israel’s refusal to go into the land he comes to recount what was said by the people in response to the spies' report.  First, they assign hatred as God’s motive for bringing them out of Egypt! Even though God has NEVER said anything that even resembles that.  God has expressed to them that he saw their affliction and delivered them from oppression and bondage; that is not the act of someone who hates them.  Next, they say that God has brought them out so that they can be destroyed by the Amorites. This is contradictory to what God ACTUALLY told them in Exodus.  He told them he was fulfilling the promise to their fathers and he was going to bring them into the land (Exodus 3:17).  

A fallen man’s heart will disregard what God actually says in favor of believing a lie from the enemy or the flesh.  They have ignored what God has told them and made up their ideas. They have assigned motives to God that he has never expressed. This reminds me of “Gentle & Lowly”. The author makes the same point, that we must have our fallen hearts reset about who God is (Jesus specifically in the book) because we believe the lies of the flesh.