I get so frustrated

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with my son when he does his homework. He is not at all interested in school, and refuses to take his time to get his work done. He'd rather hurry through it, usually guessing at answers getting them all wrong. I don't accept this, I never have. I look over his work when he claims to be done with it, and I always hand it back pointing out the wrong answers, or just flat out telling him it's unacceptable and he needs to do it correctly. He will continue this for hours until the page is so destroyed from erasing it, that he's forced to take a zero on the assignment. He has spent the last hour working on a social studies assignment. He has 3 easy questions to answer, but has thus far done them all completely wrong. I told him twice that he was wrong, and he did it once more, but this time tried to squirrel it away without me checking. When I did check it was still quite wrong. I keep telling him he needs to take his time and do it correctly, it's not a game or a race. He began crying saying it's too hard. It's not too hard, he just doesn't want to take the time to get it done. All of his answers are in the text, but he's not reading through to find them. I'm quite upset right now, because I want him to do this right. How can I make him realize this is important and he needs to do it the correct way? How can I fix this nasty, stubborn habit of his?