Midrash su Osea 5:9

Rabbi Abbahu in the name of Rabbi Yosei bar Ḥanina began: “Ephraim will be desolation” (Hosea 5:9). When? “On the day of rebuke [tokheḥa]” (Hosea 5:9), the day when the Holy One blessed be He is destined to contend [lehitvake’aḥ] with them in judgment. You find that when the Ten Tribes were exiled, Judah and Benjamin were not exiled. The Ten Tribes were saying: Why did He exile us and He did not exile them? It is because they are residents of His palace. Is there, perhaps, partiality here? Heaven forbid, there is no partiality here. Rather, they had not yet sinned; and when they sinned, He exiled them. The Ten Tribes said: This is our God, this is our God. This is mighty, this is mighty, this is truth, this is truth, and He does not show favor even to members of His household. When they sinned they were exiled. When they were exiled, Jeremiah began lamenting over them, eikha.