The Principle of Sufficient Reason, when applied universally, generates a vicious regress or demands that the necessary being itself requires no explanation, arbitrarily terminating the explanatory chain.

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Arbitrarily terminating(describing a weakness in the proposed solution): Stopping something (in this case, the search for explanations) without a logical reason, just by choosing to stop at a particular point.
Explanatory chain(what the regress problem affects): A series of reasons linked together, where each thing is explained by the thing before it, like dominoes falling one after another.
Principle of Sufficient Reason(Leibniz's foundational metaphysical principle underwriting the explicability of all events and phenomena.): Nothing takes place without a sufficient reason; nothing occurs for which it would be impossible for someone who has enough knowledge of things to give a reason adequate to determine why the thing is as it is and not otherwise.
necessary being(Theistic metaphysics): A being that exists and is God in every possible world

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