In Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonian_fluid, it is said that for the incompressible isotropic case of Newtonian fluid, the viscous stress equation is

$$
\tau_{i j}=\mu\left(\frac{\partial v_{i}}{\partial x_{j}}+\frac{\partial v_{j}}{\partial x_{i}}\right)
$$
where
$x_{j}$ is the $j$ th spatial coordinate

$v_{i}$ is the fluid's velocity in the direction of axis $i$

$\tau_{i j}$ is the $j$ th component of the stress acting on the faces of the fluid element perpendicular to axis $i$.

But I don't understand why there is a $\frac{\partial v_{j}}{\partial x_{i}}$ term here. It seems that $v_{j}$ penetrates the face, which means it can not provide sheer stress. Can anyone show me by graphs? Thank you!