This is the second time? If you shrink a database at all, it should be one-off job following a one-off large data deletion. If it grows "too large" again, then the DB needs extra space for its operations.

One thing to look at is if the autogrow settings are too large. If you have a 5GB DB set to grow 5GB at a time and it results in 48% free space, then you might want to shrink again (to a size that that includes a more reasonable amount of free space), then set the autogrowth smaller to a setting that allows for growth but makes growths unlikely to happen very often.