Covering over sins?

Many will be familiar with the phrase: love covers over a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8), but what exactly does it mean?

Pastoral care Steve Midgley

Surely in the unfolding story of the Bible, sin is the problem. How can it be right to overlook it? Good counselling and good ministry must mean helping people identify their sin, combat their sin, repent of their sin and put on godliness instead. If sin is the problem and finding grace the solution, then won’t covering sin over simply bury the problem and leave it unresolved?