Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-An'aam, Ayah 43
فَلَوْلَآ إِذْ جَآءَهُم بَأْسُنَا تَضَرَّعُوا۟ وَلَٰكِن قَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ
Then why, when Our punishment came to them, did they not humble themselves? But their hearts became hardened, and Satan made attractive to them that which they were doing.
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If only when Our might Our punishment came upon them they had been humble in other words they were not so even though the necessitating factor was there. But their hearts were hard and would not yield to faith and Satan adorned for them what they were doing in the way of disobedient acts and so they persisted in them.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(If only, when our disaster) punishment (came on them, they had been humble) they had believed! (But their hearts were hardened) their hearts dried up (and the devil made all that they used to do) in their disbelief that such is the state of life: hardship alternates with ease and comfort (seem fair unto them!)