Quoting%20commentary for Yoma 171:16

רב יהודה רמי כתיב שובו בנים שובבים ארפא משובותיכם וכתיב (ירמיהו ג, יד) (הנה) אנכי בעלתי בכם ולקחתי אתכם אחד מעיר ושנים ממשפחה ל"ק כאן מאהבה או מיראה כאן ע"י יסורין אמר רבי לוי גדולה תשובה שמגעת עד כסא הכבוד שנא' (הושע יד, ב) שובה ישראל עד ה' אלהיך

This is no difficulty: in the one case the reference is where they return out of love, in the other, out of fear.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Where the penitence is motivated by love, the return is complete leaving no trace of any taint, which is not the case where it is motivated by fear].');">²⁶</span> Rab Judah pointed out this contradiction: It is written: 'Return ye backsliding children , I will heal your backsliding', but it is also written: For I am a lord unto you. and I will take you one of a city. and two of a family?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. III, 14.');">²⁷</span> This is no contradiction: The one verse speaks [of a return] out of love or fear; the other, when it comes as a result of suffering. R'Levi said: Great is repentance, for it reaches up to the Throne of Glory, as it is said: Return, O Israel unto the Lord thy God.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hos. XIV, 2.');">²⁸</span>

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