God's Eyes

1 Kings 14:8
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, but you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

These are Ahijah's words to Jeroboam's wife, who came in disguise to find out what would happen to their son, lying sick at home. The answer was that the child would die, but that was only the beginning. Whatever remained of Jeroboam's family and legacy would suffer humiliating destruction.
Why? "You have done more evil than all who lived before you."
Most of his evil had to do with corrupted worship. He'd made other gods. He allowed high places, and let anyone who wanted to serve as priests there.
So he is unfavorably compared to David, who followed God with all his heart. I like the elaboration of following with all his heart: doing only what was right in God's eyes. There is something both positive and exclusive about it. David's righteousness lay not so much in what he did not do, but in what he did, which was only what God saw as right.
The one standard. No pragmatism, no compromise. Look through God's eyes, and aim there.