My iPhone needs to be restored eveytime I update iOS?

I don't know why but every time I try and update iOS on my iPhone, iTunes says that my phone has gone into recovery mode and has to be restored. The iOS update finishes downloading fine but when the changes are actually going to be done to my iPhone, iTunes says that my iPhone needs to be restored.
I always sync my iPhone at night and it's really annoying because if the iOS update glitches, then it takes hours to finish.
I've had to restore my iPhone 3 times due to the iOS update crashing.
Any idea as to how to solve this problem?

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