Recommend me a language

I used VB 6 a while ago before I started learning some real languages. However, I still can't get over how much easier it was to make GUI applications in VB, despite how much the language itself sucked. Window toolkits for other languages are horrible to use and rarely come with a real visual editor - Tk sucks ass, Swing sucks ass, win32 API in C is either a pain in the ass or I can't figure out a good way to do it...

I haven't tried MFC or any .NET shit yet. How the hell do people write real Windows apps? Should I try something else?

Visual Studio.net's implementation of VB is actually pretty cool.
Unlike VB6 which isn't truely an object-oriented program language (Let's face it. It's not. Don't fucking argue.), VB.net makes everything so much easier. Not only that, but it is far superior to VB6 in almost every way, and might actually be a programming language worth being called a programming language.
...But if you're cool, you'll go with C++, C#, or Java.