Hosea 6:7

They like men have transgressed. Or, “like Adam they have transgressed.” In His supreme love for His children, God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden to be His representative on earth, and to have dominion over it (Gen. 1:26), but our first father violated God’s command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 3:6, 22-24; Isa. 59:1, 2). Like Adam, Israel and Judah had been given a dwelling place by God; like Adam, they had broken God’s covenant with them through iniquity; and like Adam, they would be driven out of the Land of Promise.

Having “treacherously” “transgressed the covenant,” Israel was no longer God’s people — a fact implied in the name Lo-ammi (see on chs. 1:9; 2:23). Israel’s treachery is illustrated in a variety of ways (see chs. 6:4; 7:8, 11, 16).