From Augustine's Confessions, Book 2:

The life which we live in this world has its attractiveness because of a certain measure in its beauty and its harmony with ... objects that are beautiful. Human friendship is also [a source of happiness]. Yet sin is committed for the sake of all these things ... when, in consequence of an immoderate urge towards those things which are at the bottom of the scale of good, we abandon the higher and supreme goods, that is you, Lord God, and your truth and your law (Ps. 118: 142). These inferior goods have their delights, but not comparable to my God, who has made them all.