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Why must the Redeemer be truly human?
That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin; and also that he might sympathize with our weaknesses. (Hebrews 2:17) (from here)

As I write this, Lord, you know of my disappointment and frustration: these things are not foreign to you. You have been through everything we go through and you sympathise with us - which is often exactly what we long for. But you didn't come to earth just to hold our hand in our disappointments and pain, though even that would be astonishing. You came to show us true humanity - how a life can be lived, what a man can be. You did that so you would be ready to die on the cross, so you could take our place there. Each hour and second of your short and perfect life was leading there. There you took what was owing to us for having defiled the life we are given, for undoing what a man should be. You hung there as one of us, on behalf of all your brothers, and when you rose again we were free.