Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak lies against me.
They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail upon their beds. They gather together [a] for grain and new wine but turn away from me.
I trained them and strengthened them, but they plot evil against me.
They do not turn to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

I like how God made it clear that he still loves them and wants to redeem them, but they turn away.I think we find ourselves in that situation way too often.

Israel cries out to me, 'O our God, we acknowledge you!'

We find ourselves doing that way to often to, 'Okay God we will praise you - if I don't have to do this and that.'

Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?
They are from Israel! This calf—a craftsman has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.

Now God's working to get it through their heads that it's a statue. I always find it strange that they bowed down to idols, yet God also has to get through our heads so many obvious things to.