Programming will be easy when problem solving is easy.

Programming is solving problems. Some programmers would consider it fun and do it for enjoyment. But for most people programmers just solve a problem. It is just a form of engineering. A civil engineer builds a bridge, a software engineer sets up a web store.

At the bottom it is just about knowing how to organize the concepts and them build a system according the specifications.

There are tools of course: the language, the platform, programming paradigms, patterns and algorithms. A good programmer will have to be familiar with a large set of those and then pick the best for the job.