diff --git a/client.go b/client.go
index 615a60de..28092a64 100644
--- a/client.go
+++ b/client.go
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ func (c *Client) connectToNode(node *Node) error {
 
 func (c *Client) connect(maxRetries int) error {
 	retryInterval := c.config.MinReconnectInterval
-	for retry := 1; maxRetries == 0 || retry <= maxRetries; retry++ {
+	for retry := 1; maxRetries < 0 || retry <= maxRetries; retry++ {
 		if retry > 1 {
 			log.Printf("Retry in %v ms...", retryInterval)
 			time.Sleep(time.Duration(retryInterval) * time.Millisecond)
diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 1e07e3f3..baedd663 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ type ClientConfig struct {
 	RPCTimeout              int32                    // Timeout for each RPC call in millisecond
 	RPCConcurrency          int32                    // If greater than 1, the same rpc request will be concurrently sent to multiple seed rpc nodes
 	MsgChanLen              int32                    // Channel length for received but unproccessed messages.
-	ConnectRetries          int32                    // Connnect to node retries (including the initial connect). 0 means unlimited retries.
+	ConnectRetries          int32                    // Connnect to node retries (including the initial connect). A negative value means unlimited retries.
 	MsgCacheExpiration      int32                    // Message cache expiration in millisecond for response channel, multiclient message id deduplicate, etc.
 	MsgCacheCleanupInterval int32                    // Message cache cleanup interval in millisecond.
 	WsHandshakeTimeout      int32                    // WebSocket handshake timeout in millisecond.