Then God realized that Adam needed a partner to help him accomplish the tasks He had assigned him; thus, God created Eve from one of Adam's ribs. In the perfect setting of the Garden of Eden, there existed an association between man and woman in which they worked side by side, but once sin entered the world, this association was distorted. Part of Eve's punishment after the fall was that "the lust of women shall be after your husband, and he shall have dominion over you" (Genesis 3:16), meaning that there will now be struggles within society between man and woman, and that the man will reign over the woman. Yet, certain key characteristics predominate in the way humans should interact with each other. In a biblical worldview, marriage should be between a man and a woman, as Genesis 3:24 shows when it states: "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.