If you are uncomfortable in life, read this. Hosea 1-7

When we live God and pursue other "lovers" God intervenes in our lives to make sure we return to Him.   In Hosea 2 we have a picture of that very truth.   God had told Hosea to marry a harlot women to demonstrate how Israel had left God and God was willing to bring them back.   Hosea tells us just how God was going to help him get his harlot wife back.  He does the same for us.   Note the following:

Hosea 2:6-7

“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,

And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

“She will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them;

And she will seek them, but will not find them.

Then she will say, ‘ I will go back to my first husband,

For it was better for me then than now! ’

God tells Hosea that He will "hedge up her way with thorns" referring to Gomer, his wife.   He is going to make her "despised" in the eyes of her new lovers.   This would not be comfortable for Gomer.   Having your way hedged in with thorns is not comfortable.   Gomer would not be comfortable.   It says the "hedge" would be a like a "wall against" her.   It would make it so she can't "overtake her lovers."  When we leave God He makes it uncomfortable for us and hard for us to find our lovers.   He wants us to "return" to Him.   This is similar to the prodigal son in Luke 15.  Once he was with the pigs he was ready to return home.   If you are uncomfortable you might want to ask  yourself the question as to why?   God is in the business of using our discomfort to put us back on track for Him.  God uses thorns to get us back on the right road.