We try our best, and yet this is how you treatise!

How a group of people grumbles regarding a supervisor, mayor, journalist, historian, or other influential mucky-muck who publishes a less-than-favorable report about said body of citizenry.

Teenage parishioners, in a letter of protest to their local abstinence-and-chastity-ranting minister who'd recently written an article admitting to having "gotten some" from one or more females other than his wife: How can you expect us to ignore our basic urges and desires when YOU YOURSELF won't even exert yourself adequately?! We try our best, and yet this is how you treatise!