Banking

I must be dense...All I need to do is move money out of my checking account and move to the payable account to offset a negative balance.  (I "can't" adjust the offending check for reasons I can't address here.)

Why did a DEBIT to the checking account show as a DEPOSIT?

This is what I did:

Acct-23/GENJRNL
account              Debit     Credit
BANK(checking)    70
Payable  Acct                     70

Result:
In BANK Check register
   Acct-23/GENJRNL    (no name)     payment=blank       Deposit = 70
In Payable acct:
                                                                                                        Initial Balance =-70
   Acct-23/GENJRNL  (payee blank)    Increase=70      Decrease=blank   Balance= -0