Hosea 3

"The Lord said to me, 'Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.

So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and about a homer and lethek of barley. Then I told her, 'You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will live with you.'

For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol. Aferward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their god and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days."

according to my commentary

This short chapter pictures the nation's exile and return.

Israel would experience a time of purificaiton in a foreign land,

but God would still love the people and

would be willing to accept them back.

God commanded Hosea to show

the same forgiving spirit to Gomer.

Although Hosea had very good reason

to divorce Gomer,

he was told to buy her back and love her.

Obviously she loved the sacred raisin cakes!

(I'd will take that as a warning, NOT to love tempting cakes!!)