AhsanAllahu ilaykum is being persistent on minor sins or doing major sins comes under the ayah of the one who took his desires as his Ilah

Ibn Kathir said: "Then He [Allah] said: (Have you seen the one who takes his own desire as his god?) — meaning: he merely follows his desires. Whatever he sees as good, he does it, and whatever he sees as bad, he avoids it. This may be used as an argument against the Mu'tazilites in their doctrine of rational-based judgments of good and evil (taḥsīn and taqbīḥ al-ʿaqlī). And it was narrated from Mālik — in one of the interpretations attributed to him — that: “He worships nothing except what he desires.”