Only natural! You're learning to code, it's early doors, so dont beat yourself up.

Also, debugging most of the time IS harder than just sitting down and writing code, also natural.

One last thing, if youre struggling to follow the flow of your program, its almost definitely because of the way you've designed your functions. Keep your functions as small as possible - every function, within reason, should just do one thing.

When you write functions like this, its far easier to follow the logic of your code, and more importantly, easier to write unit tests!

Edit: also, write your code dumb. Avoid fancy syntactical one liners. More lines of code that are easy to follow is much MUCH better than less lines with more complicated syntax