Why did God say in Genesis that He was 'sorry he had made' man, and that it grieved him?

Genesis 6:7

ESV - ⁷ So the Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.

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