Wait wait wait...,,peterjens did you just identify yourself as a Pharisee?
Anyway your definition of "believer" is incorrect unless you mean a believer in a false gospel,because God does have a problem with most of us, that's why He sent Jesus.
Here let me help you out.
A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER is someone who has died to his/her old self, repented of being a sinner and disobeying God, repented of unbelief and been given the Holy Spirit that declared them as children of God. God thenchastens and trains each adopted child to live godly lives. Of God is not convicting and teaching people how to overcome their sins then they are illegitimate and not true children of the Most High God. God does not only teach us what sin is according to Him, he empowers us to overcome. He lifts us up when we fall into a ditch the enemy digs and teaches us how to avoid such traps in the future. He is not a distant God but a living Father that walks with us through the valleys and mountains of our lives. Some days He carries us on wings of eagles and others He shelters us through the storms of our lives.
A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER walks with GOD daily and are ambassadors for the King to this world in need of His light and life giving water.
I know I am a BORN again believer.
A Pharisee is someone who teaches the Law and externally obeys but in their heart murders people daily. With their mouth they slander and lie but deny they have done any wrong. They do not repent or pray and seek God or His ways. They preach God's law without understanding the true depth of it but only judge people by external signs. They lack spiritual discernment and condemn people as lost fools who do not agree with them. They may speak from the Bible, but they lack power because their words contain no love for those they speak. Jesus called them whitewashed tombs. They look clean and pure on the outside but inside they are filled with dead men's bones. They seek to enslave those God has freed to the chains of condemnation and use God's law unlawfully to create their chains of lies and false doctrine.
I don't know why anyone would want to identify with Pharisees.