I don't know if this quote is verbatim (I've seen another version of this quote that was slightly different), but it's close enough to get the point across.
Doing what's right isn't always easy. In fact, it seldom is. It was President Henry B. Eyring that said "If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill." I believe that God doesn't make life too easy for us because He wants us to grow. Facing and overcoming challenges gives us a kind of strength that taking the easy path could never provide. Unfortunately, since choosing the right is so difficult, it makes choosing the wrong all the more tempting.
One of the adversary's tools is to make temptations and vice as accessible as possible. While spirituality is difficult to obtain and maintain, falling into a life of sin is as easy as doing nothing or as following the crowd. Thus, a great deal of will-power is needed in order to choose the right path over the easier ones.
The good news is that when we exercise that kind of will-power, our strength of will increases. One of the aspects of the natural man is the desire to take the path of least resistance, but as we strive to choose the right, even when it's difficult to do so, our spirits grow stronger than our natural inclinations, giving us the power to resist temptation.
We frequently have to choose between doing what's right and doing what's easy, and because making the wrong choice is easy, making the right choice rarely is. But with God's help and a little bit of will-power, we can make the difficult right choices, and the more we do so, the easier it becomes. I believe that, if we make good choices frequently enough, it can become easier for us to continue to do so than to fall into temptation from there. Unfortunately, I haven't reached that point, so I can't tell you for certain, but I can tell you that when we do muster up the will-power to make the right choice, doing so again becomes a little less difficult.
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