diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/sqoop/tool/BaseSqoopTool.java b/src/java/org/apache/sqoop/tool/BaseSqoopTool.java
index c0221c97..ea8a3f44 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/sqoop/tool/BaseSqoopTool.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/sqoop/tool/BaseSqoopTool.java
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ protected void validateHiveOptions(SqoopOptions options)
     // Warn about using hive specific arguments without hive import itself
     if (!options.doHiveImport()
       && ((options.getHiveHome() != null
-            && options.getHiveHome().equals(SqoopOptions.getHiveHomeDefault()))
+            && !options.getHiveHome().equals(SqoopOptions.getHiveHomeDefault()))
         || options.doOverwriteHiveTable()
         || options.doFailIfHiveTableExists()
         || (options.getHiveTableName() != null