I think the why is important. Understanding is important.
That being said, it’s important for me to recognize that understandings only give me a limited measure of control. If I attempt to gain so much “understanding” as to completely “control” my alcoholism, one day I will drink.
I try to use insights and understandings about my nature to assist a power greater than myself to remove basic character flaws (or at least the actions that flow from them). I believe I have been requested to be involved in this process.
The bottom line for me is that God does not hold man’s intellect in contempt.