Total aerodynamic force vector for the entire wing

Center of pressure of the wing. Centers of pressure of the airfoils

In the above situation there is an unbalanced nose down pitching moment. The aircraft cannot fly straight, it will go nose down. To keep the aircraft fly straight, we need to have zero pitching moment. One way to have no pitching moment is to have center of pressure of the aircraft coincide with the center of gravity. This is not a good way of doing that, due to many reasons both center of gravity and center of pressure may change during the flight, resulting in nonzero pitching moment.

To have zero pitching moment in throughout entire flight, horizontal stabilizers are used.

Force on the horizontal stabilizer can be changed to make the total pitching moment zero. That's why it is called horizontal stabilizer, its job is to make the aircraft fly horizontally in a stable way.