In Hosea 2:8 the image of Baal is mentioned. Baal was the god of agriculture. He was thought to ensure good harvests. Man sows the seed, but Baal provides the good produce when he gives rain. So you have to offer and worship this Baal. In this way you as a human being can influence that you get a good harvest. Thus people in Israel exchanged the true God for the idol. And it also seemed to work, because at that time prosperity increased enormously. As if prosperity is the same as blessing…
2 “Plead with your mother, plead for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;