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I like SmartGit enough that I paid $80 for it (despite the fact that it seems weird to pay money for dev tools these days). You can download it and use it free for non-commercial use, though.

I'm reasonably comfortable with the git command-line tools, but for keeping the simple things simple I really do like an integrated all-in-one visual diff/VCS client program and SmartGit is the best one I've used for git.

SourceTree (mentioned by fsk) is kind of a trainwreck on Windows, in my experience (moving to SmartGit was the result of me getting fed up with SourceTree and looking for something not as frustrating). From what I understand the Mac version works better, though I haven't used it. While the UI is quite nice to start, the Windows version of SourceTree tends to soft-hang a lot (goes into non-responsive states it eventually recovers from, but will hang for like 30+ seconds at times) and it has a lot of weird issues with multi-monitor setups (it'll sometimes randomly jump to the other monitor during pane resizing and such).

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