Game never opens after hitting "play" from the launcher

The game never opens after pressing "play" from the launcher. The launcher just closes and re-opens.

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Apr 5, 2014 11:06:48 AM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows XP'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '5.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'x86'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_51'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '32'

Looking for update
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Got reply in: 719ms
No update found.
Reversing LZMA on C:\Users\Raymond\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack.lzma to C:\Users\Raymond\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Unpacking C:\Users\Raymond\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack to C:\Users\Raymond\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.jar
Cleaning up C:\Users\Raymond\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\launcher.pack
Starting launcher.