I will visit on her the days of the Baals, To which she burned incense, When she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot me," says Yahweh.
"And forgat me ..." This is another citation of the whore's guilt; and, as noted by Mays, it is "a summary of the guilt of Israel."[37]  In the large frame of reference, all sins are variations on the theme of forgetting God. Selfishness is forgetting God in others.  Pride is the absence from the thoughts of any awareness of God. Worry is the sin of forgetting God's providence.  Envy is the sin of forgetting God in the blessings which we already have.  Thus, selfishness, pride, worry, and envy are all variations of the prior sin of forgetting God. One must forget God first, before these evils can find a dwelling place in his heart.  From the Book of Deuteronomy, God had thundered the quadruple warning, "Beware, lest thou forget Jehovah thy God!"   (Deuteronomy 6:12; 8:11, etc.); but Israel had refused to heed it.  "She was now completely devoted to the Baals, and at that time was not even trying to worship God with Baalistic rites."[38]  God was left completely out of their thoughts.  (See more on this under  Hosea 13:6.)