Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hosea 11:2-3

"The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them." — Hosea 11:2-3 (ASV)

And burned incense to graven images. I taught Ephraim also to go, –

This child-nation was taught by God how to walk.