Gomer was a "wife of harlotry", not an "adulteress", who was "loved by her husband" (Hosea 3:1). The children of Gomer (Hosea 1:3) represented Lo-ruhamah, "for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel" (Hosea1:2-9), and Lo-ammi, "for you are not my people", and "the sons of...