Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

There exists a period of time between regeneration and conversion, where all of God's adopted children live in disobedience. Not as a bastard unregenerate who has no Father (Hebrews 12:8), but as an adopted child of God who has not yet heard the gospel, or who has heard but rejected it. The disobedient children of God are rebellious goats. They who love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. The children of disobedience live, talk, and act the same as the unregenerate (Galatians 4:1) because they yield themselves to the control of the carnal mind.