Ah, so if I torture you into signing a confession, then you're actually doing it of your Free Will, right? That's what I'm hearing.
In technicality, yes I am. Granted, you are abusive and unethical in doing so, but you are not rewiring my brain. There is a reason that the torture that occurred in Guantanamo Bay didn't reveal a single terrorist plot or lead to the capture of a single terrorist, because it can't overcome free will.
As what heresiarch, or jihadist, or what have you, does not?
By lovingly knocking him down, striking him blind and telling him to knock it off. Any why was St. Paul "kicking against the goads" if it was just his Free Will being adjusted? Ever hear the the phrase "dragged kicking and screaming"?
Except Paul wasn't dragged kicking and screaming. He was confronted by the person he thought he was following, and when realizing that he was going against the wishes of the One he wished to follow, he changed his ways of his own free will. That is plain as the nose on my face. Paul COULD have chosen to not go to the man God sent him to. Paul COULD have chosen to reject God even after he lost his sight. There are certainly stories of people who, after even the worst torture, refused to reject their ways, I believe in many cases, these people were called martyrs. And then there are people who, at the first sign of difficulty, left their original path because it was just too hard. But if Paul had chosen to leave, we wouldn't be reading his story in Scripture, now would we? And if God could just reach in and rewire his brain, God wouldn't have needed to use a bright light. He could have simply snapped his fingers and BOOM, Paul follows Him with no need for any kind of punishment. In the scenario lacking free will, the only reason for God to cause pain is because He enjoys the pain, because He could achieve the same results without the pain.
And yes, each sin is an act of Free Will. That's all that Free Will is good for. Our Free Will isn't free. It's corrupted, as we are (because we are, really). And God can, and will, have us do His will whether we want to or not. He is, after all, God. The "Poor God, He can't override our Free Will" thing is the worst kind of rubbish.
Then it isn't free will. If God could override our free will, and He doesn't, then HE is responsible for EVERYTHING we do. If God made us the way we are, then HE is responsible for EVERYTHING we do. It is not we who are evil, any more than a gun is evil. It is always, ALWAYS the shooter who is at fault. God is the shooter. He made us and set us on the path we went on, and therefore God is the chief of all sinners, the source of all lies, the cause of all murders and rapes.
Free will is not free if it cannot choose to do the opposite of sin. That is the OPPOSITE of free will that you are describing, and it makes God the sinner, not us, for we are no different than rocks, knives, guns, logs, or any other inanimate object. Essentially, unless free will is truly free, then Romans 2:2 is complete and utter rubbish. It is God bold-faced lying to us.
We have learned from the prophets, and we hold it to be true, that punishments, chastisements, and rewards are rendered
according to the merit of each man’s actions. Otherwise, if all things happen by fate, then nothing is in our own power. For
if it be predestined that one man be good and another man evil, then the first is not deserving of praise or the other to be
blamed. Unless humans have the power of avoiding evil and choosing good by free choice, they are not accountable for their
actions-whatever they may be.... For neither would a man be worthy of reward or praise if he did not of himself choose the
good, but was merely created for that end. Likewise, if a man were evil, he would not deserve punishment, since he was not
evil of himself, being unable to do anything else than what he was made for. (St. Justin Martyr)