Is it even a force in a Newtonian sense? It's not as if quarks or gluons are little lumps of anything tangible. They're more like tendencies for certain kinds of events to cluster in certain locations, and as a you add more 'energy' the distributions change.
A rubber band that breaks into two different rubber bands is a metaphor. Whatever is really happening at the hypothetical sub-quantum scale that manages these interactions will be much weirder.