Why is my iPhone hot like a frying pan?

I was charging my iPhone and quite suddenly it began to feel like I could scramble eggs on it. Why is it doing this?

This is just speculation on my part, but from many threads it has come up that the phone is constantly processing (thus getting hotter) and it is doing this as it got stuck with some check (eg: checking email). Now this is just my opinion but from the number of threads I have seen I noticed a lot of them when detailing what they had enabled, Yahoo, AOL, and GMAIL (non IMAP settings), were listed a lot as email accounts they were checking. Now I know there have been a lot of Yahoo Push issues and I just have to wonder, if you disable any of those email accounts (go ahead and leave on POP ones) does it continue to get hot?
After disabling them I would reboot (not just turn off and on).
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/iphone/2007/tips/iphone-tip-resetiphone560x316.mov
To add more info.
A reset/reboot is:
Go to Home Screen
Press and Hold Home Button
Keep holding and press and hold Lock Button
Keep holding Both
You will see Slide to Turn Off (Don't keep holding)
The phone will turn off (in time, but screen will look like it has some white lines)
Keep Holding
When you see the Apple Logo, you can let go.
Turning off via the Slide to Turn off while good and fine to turn off, is more like the Sleep Mode on a computer. Thus any locked up issues in memory remain when you turn back on. A reboot as described is like doing a real Turn off and Turn On on a computer.

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