Though no one wants to be in debt, circumstances sometimes dictate that a loan be taken out. A combination of different factors and a lack of financial planning sometimes lead to more debts than you can deal with. The result is something totally confusing but not hopeless.
The problem with having too many loans from different creditors is that you have different payments to make each month. Each payment would have a different interest rate. Paying off all your loans could become quite a confusing process. There is also the fact that you may not be able to handle paying them all off regularly so the others suffer and you miss payments on them. That begets more problems in itself. Penalties and surcharges would be the least of your worries.