How variable decrements work in recursive functions?

I want to understand this below recursion. Here times-1 is passed each time function is called. How it reaches to zero? I mean, when times-1 is compared by if(times===1) then the statments terminates and else is not executed. And how each time decremented value is passed.

function repeatStringNumTimes(string, times) {
  if(times < 0) 
    return "";
  if(times === 1) 
    return string;
  else 
    return string + repeatStringNumTimes(string, times - 1);
}
repeatStringNumTimes("abc", 3);