diff --git a/src/gvm_sync_targets/cli/__init__.py b/src/gvm_sync_targets/cli/__init__.py
index a097b83..7631464 100644
--- a/src/gvm_sync_targets/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/src/gvm_sync_targets/cli/__init__.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def gvm_sync_targets(
     username: str, password: str, debug: bool, hosts_file: TextIO
 ) -> None:
     if debug:
-        logging.getLogger().setLevel("DEBUG")
+        logging.basicConfig(level="DEBUG", force=True)
 
     with Gmp(
         DebugConnection(UnixSocketConnection()),