Hosea: The problem was that Israel did not know their God (Hosea 4:1) and so God tells a man named Hosea to marry a prostitute. Hosea marries her but she leaves him and commits adultery. Joel: When God was delivering Israel from slavery in Egypt, He sent a plague of locusts on the Egyptians’ crops. Hundreds of years later, He is judging His people with the same kind of plague for straying from Him.