Most people know me as a New Testament scholar. To keep my reading of Scripture balanced, however, I do most of my devotions from the Old Testament. Indeed, I have encountered God especially deeply in prophetic books such as Hosea and Jeremiah, where God laments over his people who have wandered far from him. God intended for his people to have an intimate relationship with him, a covenant relationship that the Bible compares with marriage.
The full article (for which the above is the first, summary paragraph) appears at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/january-web-only/my-real-life-hosea-story.html