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In Macbeth, what is Lady Macbeth's complaint about her husband?
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Lady Macbeth complains that her husband is too kind and indecisive to seize power by killing King Duncan. She fears his compassion may prevent him from taking the "nearest way" to the throne. To spur him into action, she questions his masculinity and accuses him of cowardice, suggesting she would fulfill a promise even if it meant killing her own child. She manipulates Macbeth by equating his willingness to murder with being a true man.
Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to be more hard-hearted—more of a "man"—and less vacillating or indecisive in his resolve to kill Duncan. She is as ambitious as Macbeth if not more so, and the idea that he is having second thoughts and strongly considering backing out of the murder has her alarmed.
She knows how to appeal to Macbeth, and she does so with vigor. She attacks his masculinity, saying that if she were him, she would absolutely go through with a promised action, even if it were to dash her baby's brains out. If she, a mere woman, has the resolution to go through with such an unnatural act, why isn't he being more of a man? Why isn't he acting with some courage? She dismisses Macbeth's foreboding about the consequences of what they are about to do.
She persuades Macbeth to move ahead with the killing. At this...
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point he wishes it could end with this one murder, and yet he is wise enough to know that Duncan's death is most likely just the beginning of the gallons of bloodshed they are going to involve themselves in. Shakespeare shows in this scene how stereotypes about masculinity push men into violent acts they would be wiser to avoid.
Lady Macbeth's first complaint about her husband is that his nature "is too full o' th' milk of human kindness" (1.5.17). When she receives his letter, telling her about the Weird Sisters' predictions, she is concerned that Macbeth is simply too nice, too compassionate, to "catch the nearest way" to the throne (1.5.18). She resolves immediately that he will be king, and she wants it right away, but if Macbeth is unwilling to kill Duncan, then it could take a lot longer. This is unacceptable to her.
Once they've made a plan to kill the king, Macbeth does try to back out, and this provokes his wife to new levels of frustration with him. Lady Macbeth asks him if he'd like to think of himself as a "coward" for the rest of his life (1.7.47). She accuses him of being "green and pale" and insists that this is how she will consider his love going forward (1.7.41). She says that he made her a promise, and his willingness to break it shows her just how little he loves her. She argues that when Macbeth was willing to commit the murder, "then [he was] a man," implying that if he does not go through with it now, then he is less of a man (1.7.56). She claims that she would sooner kill her own baby than break a promise to him. Thus, she accuses him of being cowardly and disloyal to her.