'Backsliding' in the Bible

“For the turning away of the naive will kill them,And the careless ease of [self-righteous] fools will destroy them.

“Because of the wickedness of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;I hid My face and was angry,And he went on turning away and backsliding, in the way of his [own willful] heart.

Moreover, the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king [of Judah], “Have you seen what that faithless Israel has done—how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there she was a prostitute?

And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has proved herself less guilty than treacherous Judah [a land of renegades].

“How long will you hesitate [to return],O you faithless and renegade daughter?For the Lord has created a new thing in the land [of Israel]:A woman will encompass (tenderly love) a man.”

My people are bent on turning from Me;Though the prophets call them to the One on high,None at all exalts Him.