Gen. 3:1  "Now the serpent was more subtil (subtle, sneaky) than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.  And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?"

Women love beautiful things.  Back in Gen. 2:9, God gave the garden some trees that were for beauty,  ("...pleasant to the sight...")  That was their only purpose.  The evil one knew  Eves' weakness.  The thing that you may not know is that the serpent was not a snake.  It was a beautiful winged creature--which was later cursed by God and forced to crawl on its belly and eat dust. (Gen. 3: 14)

Evil never appears wrapped in 'ugly'.  We are always tempted by something desirable.  Something that we want.  Something that we want to do.  Something that we have to have.  Something that makes us feel better than everyone else.  The forbidden things.  The evil one says, "What's so wrong with that?"

The serpent asked Eve a question.  It made her doubt.  Once you question what is the right thing to do, doing the wrong thing gets easier.

What in the world could be wrong with lingering, listening to a creature that looked so beautiful?

My husband likes to say to the young people we know, "Tell me who you are running with, and I'll tell you what you're doing."

We become like the people we listen to.