I'm trying to understand how voltage works in circuits, and currently I'm stuck at Kirchhoff's Loop Law.
Suppose we have a simple circuit, just a battery and a resistor. Our battery supplies a voltage across the circuit $\Delta V_{battery}$. Now, according to Kirchoff's loop law, the resistor has a $\Delta V$ equal and opposite to that of the battery, causing the sum of the voltages across the loop to be 0.
The way I see it, the battery supplies energy in the form of a potential difference, and the resistor removes all that energy in the form of heat. Now our electrons have exited the resistor with no potential energy, and our current will cease to exist.
However, resistors only lower the current of a circuit (this I understand via Ohm's Law), not remove it entirely. So clearly there is a flaw in my thinking. Where am I going wrong?