This verse shows that Israel’s apostasy from the Lord is a repeating fraction (compare 2 Kings 21:20). What it says here should not be interpreted as if there never was a period in which the leaders and the people served the Lord. What it does mean, is that apostasy kept coming back, and that serving other gods is a continuous track. That generates anger and sorrow in the Lord—the verb “provoking” (also used in 2 Kings 21:6) points to a reaction in the emotion that includes both anger as well as sorrow. We should remember that anger and sorrow often go together.
15 because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”