Hosea 7:1

"When I would have healed Israel, (the Northern Kingdom) then the iniquity of Ephraim (That's the other name for the Northern Kingdom.) was discovered, (In other words, God couldn't heal them because they still were not turning from their idolatry.) and the wickedness of Samaria: (Now, Samaria was Jews.) for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troops of robbers spoileth without." Do you see what a society they had become? It was rotten to the core. That's what the Scripture calls them.

Hosea 7:2-4

"And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3. They make the king (Here we come again, we go right to the top of the political spectrum.) glad with their wickedness, (He saw nothing wrong with all the rot that they were doing.) and the princes (That is the next echelon below the king.) with their lies. 4. They are all adulterers, (They were all mixing their Judaism with idolatry.) as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising (that is the dough) after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened."