diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/Cascade.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/Cascade.java
index 284686e69b..8f22674c34 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/Cascade.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/internal/Cascade.java
@@ -93,15 +93,30 @@ public final class Cascade {
 				if ( style.doCascade( action ) ) {
 					Object child;
 
-					// For bytecode enhanced entities, need to fetch the attribute
-					if ( hasUninitializedLazyProperties && persister.getPropertyLaziness()[i] && action.performOnLazyProperty() ) {
+					if ( hasUninitializedLazyProperties &&
+							!persister.getInstrumentationMetadata().isAttributeLoaded( parent, propertyName ) ) {
+						// parent is a bytecode enhanced entity.
+						// cascading to an uninitialized, lazy value.
 						if ( types[i].isCollectionType() ) {
+							// The collection does not need to be loaded from the DB.
+							// CollectionType#resolve will return an uninitialized PersistentCollection.
+							// The action will initialize the collection later, if necessary.
 							child = types[i].resolve( LazyPropertyInitializer.UNFETCHED_PROPERTY, eventSource, parent );
+							// TODO: it would be nice to be able to set the attribute in parent using
+							// persister.setPropertyValue( parent, i, child ).
+							// Unfortunately, that would cause the uninitialized collection to be
+							// loaded from the DB.
 						}
-						else {
+						else if ( action.performOnLazyProperty() ) {
+							// The (non-collection) attribute needs to be initialized so that
+							// the action can be performed on the initialized attribute.
 							LazyAttributeLoadingInterceptor interceptor = persister.getInstrumentationMetadata().extractInterceptor( parent );
 							child = interceptor.fetchAttribute( parent, propertyName );
 						}
+						else {
+							// Nothing to do, so just skip cascading to this lazy (non-collection) attribute.
+							continue;
+						}
 					}
 					else {
 						child = persister.getPropertyValue( parent, i );