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- In his book DISAPPOINTMENT WITH GOD, Philip Yancey imagines God's feelings in the book of Hosea. "I'll tell you how I feel! I feel like a jilted lover. I found my lover thin and wasted, abused, but I brought her home and made her beauty shine. She is my precious one, the most beautiful woman in the world to me, and I lavish on her gifts and love. And yet she forsakes me. She pants after my best friends, my enemies - anyone. She stands by a highway and under every spreading tree and, worse than a prostitute, she pays people to have sex with her. I feel betrayed, abandoned, cuckolded." (DISAPPOINTMENT WITH GOD, © 1988 Zondervan, p. 93)