Bravo!
This is so they would repent and turn to the Lord instead of following their wicked ways.
So, the kind of love here is a tough but firm love, and the prayers are not weak but also pointed.
For all of us have gone astray, each of us has turned away, but the Lord has laid the Iniquity of us all (believers) upon Him. And their was probably someone praying for us also, when we did not know the Love of Christ.
Blessings in Prayer.
SR