When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery against from Yahweh."
Another difficulty is the meaning of "children of harlotry." Were these children that Gomer already had? [Note: Keil, 1:29.] Were they children that Hosea would have by Gomer that would prove unfaithful like their mother? [Note: Wood, "Hosea," p. 171.] Or were they born to Hosea and Gomer after she became unfaithful? [Note: McComiskey, pp. 15-16.] Probably the phrase means "children of a wife who is marked by harlotry." [Note: Andersen and Freedman, p. 168; and Kaiser, p. 197.] It seems to me that the children in view were the children born to Hosea and Gomer, and they became known as children of harlotry when their mother became a harlot.