Jerry Hwang's commentary on Hosea follows the pattern of the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament: for every passage it gives the main idea, the literary context, the author's own translation, an exegetical outline with the Hebrew laid out, the structure and literary form, an explanation of the text, and its canonical and practical significance.

The series is built for the pastor and Bible teacher, and it analyzes the discourse of the book as a whole rather than treating verses in isolation - which matters especially in Hosea, where the marriage, the oracles and the pleading are one argument. Hebrew is assumed at a basic level and always explained.