According to Osho, it is the unconscious—nine times stronger than the conscious and packed with ingrained habits—that keeps us clinging to worldly patterns even when we 'know' they breed misery. The conscious merely thinks; the unconscious does. Only disciplined practice—yoga, sustained awareness, transformative habits—lets conscious insight penetrate and recondition the unconscious, ending this split.
Your hidden automatic mind is stronger than your thinking mind, so you keep doing what hurts until you train that hidden part.