The title compound, C17H20N4O2, was prepared by the reaction between 1,3-di-amino-propane and isatoic anhydride in water. The carbonyl O atoms are involved in intra-molecular hydrogen bonding with the amine group and inter-molecular hydrogen bonding with an amide H atom of an adjacent mol-ecule. In the crystal, pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link mol-ecules into inversion dimers and further N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the dimers into ladder-like chains along the a axis.