There is an appropriate guilt, a proper remorse of conscience, that men and women must enjoy if they are to remain on that strait and narrow path that leads ultimately to eternal life. There is a fine line between the devil’s dissonance (which is evil and demoralizing) and divine discontent (which is of God and is a source for gradual and constant improvement).
True Saints pray constantly about their feelings. They ask the Father in the name of the Son to educate their desires, to shape their affections, to fine-tune their feelings to the end that they feel what they ought to feel. No one wants to feel any more guilt than is appropriate. But no one seeking salvation would want to feel any less than is necessary. “Now I rejoice,” Paul wrote to the Corinthian Saints, “not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance.” And then the Apostle added: “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation,” while “the sorrow of the world worketh death.” (2 Corinthians 7:10-11; compare Mormon 2:13.)