The more they sleep, the more they want to sleep. They have learned to hide their responsibilities in this oblivious state of unconsciousness.
Some children refuse to wake up on a cold morning to go to school.
Some husbands dislike the thoughts of waking to go to work, while some mothers turn over and go back to sleep to escape the mountains of housework waiting on them. Urgent necessities are delayed and disaster strikes because a slothful man hid behind the curtain called, sleep. Cities have been invaded, the critically ill have died, destruction has consumed nations because someone was sleeping, who should have been awake. Jonah tried to hide from the call of God in his life. Because of fear, he buried his God given responsibility in the state of self induced slumber.