Amos 3:14

In the day that I shall visit the transgression of Israel upon, him, I will also visit (upon) the altars of Bethel -Israel then hoped that its false worship of “nature” would avail it. God says, contrariwise, that when He should punish, all their false worship, so far from helping them, should itself be the manifest object of His displeasure. Again God attests, at once, His long-suffering and His final retribution.