Hosea increases his tender pleadings to return to the Lord.
V.3 Beautiful promise — and for us too. “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.” If we all obey the Word of God, then we will all understand alike, and think alike. The Spirit of God cannot teach one believer one thing and teach another believer something opposite.
Adultery or whoredom in Israel’s time, teaches us spiritually what unfaithfulness to the Lord is. To be disobeying the Lord doctrinally today is like committing adultery in those times. And the longer we continue in it, the harder our heart gets.