diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4182f874..760a29af 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+# 2.0.4
+  * Recursively call the function if `Retry-After` has the value greater than 0 [#192](https://github.com/singer-io/tap-github/pull/192)
+
 # 2.0.3
   * Handles the secondary rate limit - `Retry-After` [#191](https://github.com/singer-io/tap-github/pull/191)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 151dbf9c..e19b70d8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(name='tap-github',
-      version='2.0.3',
+      version='2.0.4',
       description='Singer.io tap for extracting data from the GitHub API',
       author='Stitch',
       url='http://singer.io',
diff --git a/tap_github/client.py b/tap_github/client.py
index c7d7f880..9e846282 100644
--- a/tap_github/client.py
+++ b/tap_github/client.py
@@ -142,10 +142,11 @@ def rate_throttling(response):
     if "Retry-After" in response.headers:
         # handles the secondary rate limit
         seconds_to_sleep = int(response.headers['Retry-After'])
-        LOGGER.info("API rate limit exceeded. Tap will retry the data collection after %s seconds.", seconds_to_sleep)
-        time.sleep(seconds_to_sleep)
-        #returns True if tap sleeps
-        return True
+        if seconds_to_sleep > 0:
+            LOGGER.info("API rate limit exceeded. Tap will retry the data collection after %s seconds.", seconds_to_sleep)
+            time.sleep(seconds_to_sleep)
+            #returns True if tap sleeps
+            return True
     if 'X-RateLimit-Remaining' in response.headers:
         if int(response.headers['X-RateLimit-Remaining']) == 0:
             seconds_to_sleep = calculate_seconds(int(response.headers['X-RateLimit-Reset']))