To clarify the quote of the Chofetz Chaim – apparently it was in a Kol Korei issued in 1914 – he says that we should demand the geulah like a worker who demands his wages after completing his work properly. To demand Mashiach merely because we are in pain (or even because we claim to feel Hashem’s pain in the galus) without doing our utmost in Torah and Mitzvos is NOT what the Chofetz Chaim meant. Read the rest of his works and this will be very clear.
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