Introduction

• Fallen Condition: We are a wayward people prone to idolatry like the people of God in Hosea's time. We are prone to love other things, people, places, and ideas more than our God or alongside of him.
• Sermon Proposition: Since the Lord is our true husband who desires our exclusive devotion and worship, let us return to him and worship him alone

I. The people's religious prostitution (2:2-13; cf. 1:2, 4:12; 5:4)

II. The Lord's plan to judge sin and restore the marriage relationship (2:14-23)

III. Our response - returning to the Lord with fasting