Are you familiar with the Willy Wonka character Veruca Salt? "I want it now, Daddy!"

He didn't want to wait for his prayers to work. He wanted a fig, and he wanted it now, and because he didn't get it right then and there, he destroyed the tree, so now it will never give him or anyone else a fig.

He got short term satisfaction, at the expense of everyone's long term satisfaction. Odds are there was a family who owned that tree, or harvested from it, either saving up for the long term, or selling them to have the money to live on, but did he think about them?