Matthew Poole and continuators on Hosea 7:3

3 They make the king glad with their wickedness , and the princes with their lies.

Either the Subjects in general, or rather the Courtiers in particular who were about the King.

The Kings of Israel every one of them, from first to last were addicted to vitious practices, and their minds were vitiated, deeply tainted with all kind of sins, and they it seems took pleasure in sins, both in their own and other mens, and here are a parcel of flagitious fellows that make it their work to invent pleasing wickedness, to acquaint their King with it, who is so far from doing his Duty in discountenancing it, that 'tis one of his delights to hear or see it.

Great men about the Court.

With false accusations brought in against the more Innocent, or by false reports made of their words and actions, representing them as ridiculous or foolish, drolling them into infamy.