MBP not consistently asking for password when opening lid

While I'm an IT consultant with 30+ years in the PC world, I'm relatively new to the Mac world having just bought my first Mac, a rMBP 13" Late 2013. While I tend to be pretty decent with troubleshooting, I'm having a sporadic issue with it that I'm not sure how to solve.
My desire is to have the unit always ask for a password whenever the lid is opened.
The problem is that about one out of every ten times, when I open the lid on the Macbook it just unlocks and goes straight to the desktop without asking for a password. Being in IT, and frankly maintaining a lot of confidential/security information for my clients, I'm hesitant to take this unit out of the office until I can resolve this issue once and for all. 9/10 times it opens up to the lock screen and asks for my password, which is what I want. But three times in the past week, it has opened straight to the desktop, ready for use. This is a security concern--if the unit is stolen I don't EVER want anyone to be able to log into it and see the data on it. But if it's just opening straight to the desktop it circumvents that protection.
Under Security and Privacy, I have "Require password 5 seconds after sleep or screen saver begins" set, along with (grayed/checked) "Show a message when the screen is locked" and "Disable automatic Login" set. Each of the times I've noticed the lack of password has been after the lid was closed for a while, definitely more than an hour. Earlier today, it happened after te notebook had been closed for at least several hours. It's happened both with the power connected, and running on battery.
Any ideas? Thanks.

If after you set the Require Password immediately and it still doesn't ask for the password then your Mac is not going into Sleep mode when the lid is closed. I have seen this happen on my 2011 model after it has been running for days, sleeping and awake for those days. I'lll close the lid at night or when I leave for work and the front white light will come on but not flash, on for a few seconds then off for a few.
A restart fixes it but I never had this problem when Lion or Mt Lion were installed. Only since going to Mavericks. I haven't checked it lately since 10.9.2 but I will. I usually shut it down now when I know I'm not going to use for a period of hours.

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