To me, the meaning of God's law is tied to the understanding that the best and only real joy is to be found in being good, holy, pure, and true; loving, generous, and honest; caring and reverent.

When people who love laws because they are in love with rule, regulation, control, and regimentation, they harm this understanding, because they muddy the connection between joy and goodness. The focus then becomes on obedience to things that are peripheral, even misleading. Such rules hijack God's law.