It is very important to pace yourself properly through a workout. If you try to train too fast , you risk cardiovascular failure or injury before you have worked the muscle enough. Also by training fast you may have a tendency to get sloppy and start throwing the weights around instead of training with proper technique.
On the other hand training too slowly is also bad. If you take 5 minutes rest between each set , your heart rate slows down , you loose your pump , the muscles get cold and your level of intensity drops down to nothing.
So you should always keep the rest between sets for a minute or less. In the first minute minute after a weight training exercise you recover 72 % of your strength and by 3 minutes you have recovered all you are going to recover without extended rest. Always remember that this point of training is to stimulate and fatigue the maximum number of muscle fiber possible and this happens only when the body is forced to recruit the additional muscle fibers to replace what is already fatigued. So you don't want your muscles to recover too much between sets but just enough to be able to continue your workout and keep forcing the body to recruit more and more muscle tissue.
The stronger you are the more times you can lift a submaximal amount of weight. This means the more you push yourself to develop muscular endurance the stronger you become. So maintaining a regular pace in your training actually leads to an increase in overall strength.
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