My guess is that you are calling org-capture either with a prefix, or with an argument. Could that be the issue? How are you capturing? With a personal keybinding?

Anyway, try hitting M-x org-capture RET and see whether it gives the same results.

From the documentation (available in emacs with C-h f org-capture):

When called interactively with a ‘C-u’ prefix argument GOTO, don’t capture anything, just go to the file/headline where the selected template stores its notes.

Also, you'll notice that the function takes an optional argument. So if you call it like org-capture t, you'll "go to" the capture entry point, rather than call capture itself:

(org-capture &optional GOTO KEYS)

My guess is that you are calling org-capture either with a prefix, or with an argument. Could that be the issue? How are you capturing? With a personal keybinding?

Anyway, try hitting M-x org-capture RET and see whether it gives the same results.

From the documentation (available in emacs with C-h f org-capture):

When called interactively with a ‘C-u’ prefix argument GOTO, don’t capture anything, just go to the file/headline where the selected template stores its notes.

Also, you'll notice that the function takes an optional argument. So if you call it programmatically like (org-capture t), you'll "go to" the capture entry point, rather than call capture itself:

(org-capture &optional GOTO KEYS)