Charles Ellicott Commentary Hosea 7:4

"They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened." — Hosea 7:4 (ASV)

Render, ceases heating from the kneading of the dough until its leavening. The baker is unremitting in his exertions to keep up the heat of the oven, the smoldering fire being fed on camel’s dung and the like fuel, except when he is obliged to occupy himself with preparing the dough for baking—an apt image of the incessant burning rage of lust and violence.