Same here, whenever I attempt to give it another chance, sooner or later I break down and revert to hg-git. I recently discovered EasyGit [1] and it seems promising from the docs. There's also gitless [2] that was covered in HN a few days ago.

[1] https://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/

[2] http://people.csail.mit.edu/sperezde/gitless/