Explore the Bible  Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries, University of Mobile Rebuking Destructive Behavior Hosea 4:1–6, 12–14 Spiritual Decay (1) This section of Hosea focuses on Israel as a nation. Just as Hosea’s wife was unfaithful, so too was Israel unfaithful to God. God used Hosea’s wife as an image of the spiritually adulterous behavior of the Israelites.  The judgment…