Genesis 1:26 "And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them."

He wanted to make man in His own image!