diff --git a/daemon/monitor.go b/daemon/monitor.go
index 081ca391bb..9e7d3062f0 100644
--- a/daemon/monitor.go
+++ b/daemon/monitor.go
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ func (m *containerMonitor) shouldRestart(exitCode int) bool {
 		return true
 	case "on-failure":
 		// the default value of 0 for MaximumRetryCount means that we will not enforce a maximum count
-		if max := m.restartPolicy.MaximumRetryCount; max != 0 && m.failureCount >= max {
+		if max := m.restartPolicy.MaximumRetryCount; max != 0 && m.failureCount > max {
 			log.Debugf("stopping restart of container %s because maximum failure could of %d has been reached",
 				utils.TruncateID(m.container.ID), max)
 			return false