What does 'Devil finds work for idle hands' mean?

When people say that the devil finds work for idle hands, they mean that if people don't have anything to do with their time, they are more likely to get involved in trouble and criminality.

• Category: Religion

Idioms similar to 'Devil finds work for idle hands'

• Idle hands are the devil's handiwork
• Better the devil you know
• Let the devil take the hindmost
• Devil may care
• Devil's advocate
• Devil is in the detail
• Speak of the devil!
• If you lie down with the Devil, you will wake up in hell
• Between the devil and the deep blue sea