Hamlet has evidently shown in the play how the uncertainty in his decisions slows him down in killing Claudius. His indecisiveness causes him to spend more time thinking about the situation and possible outcomes. In the second act scene, Hamlet has yet to keep the promise he made to his father. Hamlet refrains from avenging his father. Hamlet refuses to act as if he knows what he is doing when in reality he has not discovered whether the act of killing is heroic and moral or cowardly and immoral. “O vengeance! Why, what an asshole I am! It is very brave that I, the son of a dear murdered father, driven to my vengeance by heaven and hell, should, like one that I am, empty my heart of words and fall cursing like a shabby, a scullion boy! Shame, why!” (2.2 579-585). Despite all this, instead of immediately taking revenge, Hamlet wants to find out if his ghostly father is telling the truth. This takes a while because Hamlet would eventually realize this to be true later in the play. Hamlet has had plenty of time to kill King Claudius but it is his uncertainty about his father's words that delays revenge. Later in Act 3 Scene 3, King Claudius is seen kneeling in prayer as he confesses his sins.